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- UUENCODE(1) USER COMMANDS UUENCODE(1)
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- NAME
- uuencode,uudecode - encode/decode a binary file for
- transmission via (plain text) mail
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- SYNOPSIS
- uuencode [source] remotedest | mail sys1!sys2!..!decode
- uuencode >outfile.uue source remotedest
- uuencode >outfile.uue <source remotedest
- uudecode [file]
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- DESCRIPTION
- _U_u_e_n_c_o_d_e and _u_u_d_e_c_o_d_e are used to send a binary file via
- uucp (or other) mail. This combination can be used over
- indirect mail links even when _u_u_s_e_n_d(1C) or other direct
- binary transmission methods are not available.
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- _U_u_e_n_c_o_d_e takes the named source file (default standard
- input) and produces an encoded version on the standard out-
- put. The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters, and
- includes the mode of the file and the _r_e_m_o_t_e_d_e_s_t for recrea-
- tion on the remote system.
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- _U_u_d_e_c_o_d_e reads an encoded file, strips off any leading lines
- added by mailers, and recreates the original file with the
- specified mode and name. If there are other uuencoded files
- in the same input, they will be decoded as well.
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- The intent is that all mail to the user ``decode'' should be
- filtered through the uudecode program. This way the file is
- created automatically without human intervention. This is
- possible on the uucp network by either using _s_e_n_d_m_a_i_l or by
- making _r_m_a_i_l be a link to _M_a_i_l instead of _m_a_i_l. In each
- case, an alias must be created in a master file to get the
- automatic invocation of uudecode.
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- If these facilities are not available, the file can be
- uudecoded manually.
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- The encode file has an ordinary text form and can be edited
- by any text editor to change the mode or remote name.
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- This version of uuencode automatically adds checksums to
- each line, and an overall file size to the end. Old ver-
- sions of uudecode will ignore this extra information, new
- versions will check it and complain if it is in error.
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- SEE ALSO
- uuencode(5), uusend(1C), uucp(1C), uux(1C), mail(1)
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- AUTHOR
- Mark Horton
- Checksums and Amiga port by Alan J. Rosenthal
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- More fixes by Fred Fish
- File size check and various refinements by Bryce Nesbitt
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- BUGS
- The file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4, plus control
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- The user on the remote system who is invoking _u_u_d_e_c_o_d_e
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