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- From: jns@ace.nas.nasa.gov (John N. Stewart)
- Subject: Re: UUENCODE help!
- References: <gf0hoqi00iUyE6umUp@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:59:42 GMT
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- In article <gf0hoqi00iUyE6umUp@andrew.cmu.edu> jd4q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Eddy Demers) writes:
- >To get uuencode to work right, do the following:
- >
- >Say you want to uuencode the binary file blah.mid into the text file blah.uu:
- > At the unix prompt, type:
- > uuencode blah.mid blah.mid > blau.uu
- >
- >I know that sounds weird, but it works. I'm not sure why you have to
- >put the source filename as both the desired file AND the remote file,
- >but that's the only way I've been able to get it to work, and it works
- >just fine that way.
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- It allows you to specify that the "outgoing" file be named something
- different (which by the way, can actually be quite dangerous. Be very
- careful about uudecoding anything as root)
-
- So "uudecode %real-file% %when-it-gets-decoded-give-it-this-file-name% \
- > %put-the-encoded-stuff-in-here%"
-
- --Ace
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