ytnef1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ytnef program.

This manual page was written for the Debian™ distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

ytnef is a command line utility which allows parsing and extracting the files contained in TNEF attachments, also known as winmail.dat attachments.

Options

Option flags are enabled when preceded by minus sign and disabled when preceded by plus sign.

-a|+a

Enables/disables saving of intermediate files.

-f|+f

Enables/disables saving of attachments.

-v|+v

Enables/disables verbose output. This option can be specified multiple times to increase/decrease the verbosity level of output.

-F|+F

Enables/disables saving of the message body as RTF.

-h

Displays a brief help message.

Return value

Returns the number of files which failed to be parsed.

Examples

ytnef -v winmail.dat

Parse winmail.dat with verbose output, don't save files.

ytnef -f . winmail.dat

Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory.

ytnef -F -f . winmail.dat

Parse and save all attachments in winmail.dat to the current directory, also save the message text to a RTF file.