Years ago I dumped the text of emails directly into the database into a text column message | text | YES | | NULL I pulled it out and displayed it on the website with a simple select like select message from postings where id = 553671 using DBI and DBD Much of the email now ends up like binary junk like this one: http://www.mrbrklyn.com/docs/file.txt I've tried decoding it with pearl with no success. Obvously it is textwidth set someout and has \ inserted in the output. Is there a fix to this? -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013