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- From: chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:54 CST
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Tag and uuencoded files
- Message-ID: <9800001@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
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- /* Written 11:30 pm Jan 23, 1993 by dattier@ddsw1.UUCP in tisdec.tis.tandy.com:comp.mail.elm */
- First, there should be no need to uudecode the files in any particular order.
- The "begin" header of a uuencode gives the name that the uudecoded file will
- have, and if the uuencodes were part of a single distribution every single
- one will have a unique name in its "begin" header for the uudecoded version
- of its own contents.
-
- Second, tagging and piping won't work with uudecode. It's not Elm's fault:
- it's uudecode's problem. If you tag and pipe, Elm assembles a text of all
- tagged messages (in the order of the current display) separated by a row of
- hyphens between each two messages and pipes that to one invocation of the
- program you specify. uudecode sees the "end" directive at the bottom of the
- first message, exits, and ignores the rest of the pipe. There is no provision
- in the uuencode standard for "next" or "continue" to mean 'close off the file
- you've been writing but look for another file's "begin" line coming up.'
-
- formail, which is part of the procmail distribution, can split up a pipe or
- an input file into separate messages. I take care of the task by tagging the
- messages and piping them to formail -s uudecode.
-
- David W. Tamkin Box 59297 Northtown Station, Illinois 60659-0297
- dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com CompuServe: 73720,1570 MCI Mail: 426-1818
- /* End of text from tisdec.tis.tandy.com:comp.mail.elm */
-
- Well, what about those of US that use FTPMail servers. MOST of these
- servers will uuencode the request, and then split the uuencoded file
- into managable (~64k) chunks. (Like ftpmail@dewrl.dec.com)
-
- From your 'Second' statement it _IS_ Elm's fault for sticking in the row
- of hyphens between messages. Also if you CANNOT specify an order to pipe
- taged messages, it is still Elm's fault (or is there a way to order the current
- display???).
-
- I guese the QUESTION should be asked - Why is there no provision provided
- in Elm to work with UUENCODE, and mail servers in particular?
-
- ===============
- Chris Riney chrisr@Jaoom.LoneStar.ORG
- ...!jasoom.lonestar.org!chrisr
- An Elm soon-to-be rookie novice.
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