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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Tag and uuencoded files
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:38:08 -0600
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- On 24 Jan 1993 05:30:23 GMT dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) said:
- ]mendez@taliesin.greco-prog.fr (Marc Mendez) wrote in
- ]<1993Jan21.183512.26171@greco-prog.fr>:
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- ]| I would like to uudecode files I receive by mail. But I need to keep
- ]| the order of the files (which is not respected all the time in the mail
- ]| list). Can I tag files in the order I want and then uudecode them
- ]| (with a pipe, I suppose) ? If yes, how ?
-
- ]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.
-
- I respectfully disagree when a file has been uuencoded and *then*
- split up into chunks which will make it through the network(s).
- In this case there will be only one item where the uuencoded data
- is preceded by a "begin", and only one ending on "end"...
-
- The way I do what Marc Mendez seems to be asking is:
- - Copy all the relevant items to a separate folder, ONE BY ONE
- and IN THE CORRECT SEQUENCE.
- - Edit this folder, deleting all the extraneous lines between
- the chunks of uuencoded data.
- - Then kick uudecode to do its thing to the edited folder.
- If I made a mistake, I CAN start over again, because I COPIED the
- original items from my mail folder.
-
- Regards.
- $$\ F. Scott Ophof
-
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