\_ SMTP quoth Lynn P. Tilby on 8/9/2001 11:39 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ \_ I normally use good old fashioned command line mail to read my mail. \_ I have some important MS-Word docs that were sent as attachments. \_ \_ How can I: \_ \_ 1. Read them \_ 2. Put them in a seperate file \_ 3. Foreward them to my ms box \_ \_ Thanks for your help... see the wv suite for basics. wvHTML among others (see freshmeat or www.wvware.com ???). Also, there's the popular 'strings' conversion utility. :-) David