[FX.php List] Re: FX.php_List Digest, Vol 24, Issue 1

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

My mail robot runs linux, base64 encoding is in there by default, what
I'm looking for is an elegant way of putting PDFs and TIFFs into
container fields in FileMaker

Gjermund

On 7/6/06, John Lannon <jlannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gjermund,
>
> I've experimented with using the shell plug-in and several open-source
> commandline utilities (iconv, base64, cURL, wget to name a few) to exchange
> XML data with UPS.
>
> Not sure if this would be a solution to your problem, but I have used the
> shell plug-in from abstrakt to invoke a base64 commandline utility to
> convert encoded text to binary data. I'll then use an insert file script
> step to get the binary data into filemaker. I store path statements and file
> names in variables such that I can tell filemaker where to find the data.
>
> You're likely looking for a more elegant means of achieving this, however,
> this method can be effecttive.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:24:19 +0200
> > From: "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" < ggt667 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [FX.php List] Injecting binary content to container field
>  >       anyone  done this yet?
> > To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
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> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > Injecting binary content to container field, using XML RPC, anyone
> > done this yet?
> >
> > I have been looking into writing a plug-in that converts base64
> > encoded material in text field to content of container field, but I
> > believe there is just simply a simpler way?
> >
> > Have a nice day,
> > Gjermund Gusland Thorsen
>
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