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- Short: Strips proprietary AOL email JPEG header from file
- Type: gfx/misc
- Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
- Author: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
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- Some people reported problems with loading various
- JPEG (JFIF) files, which they had received as email
- attachment.
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- It seems that the online service provider AOL does use
- a proprietary additional header for email attachments,
- which makes it impossible for some (most) JPEG readers
- to recognize AND decode the resulting modified JFIF files.
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- The file structure for example could look like this:
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- [ AOL JPEG8BIM header ]
- [ Photshop 3.0 preview JFIF ]
- [ Photshop 4.0 main JFIF ]
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- I've written a small utility called "StripAOL",
- which does (at least it should, otherwise please
- feel free to report bugs) strip that proprietary
- AOL header from the file.
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- Usage: StripAOL infile outfile
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