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- From: dickow@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu (Bob Dickow)
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- Subject: Re: UUENCODE format?
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 06:51:36 GMT
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- Thomas Clancy (thom@cs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : mds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mark David Simmons) writes:
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- : >The format for uuencode on all systems is the same:
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- : >% uuencode infile decodefilename > outfile
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- : >Which is cryptic...but uuencode was meant to be used to pipe the ASCII file into
- : >a mail message on UNIX systems.
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- : >-Mark
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- : Tried this, it doesn't seem to work for me. Remember, I CAN use UUENCODE
- : on UNIX, I just cannot get the Amiga version working properly.
- :
- : I tired [assuming the file I want to uuencode is called "TEST"]:
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- : uuencode TEST TEST >newname.uue
- : etc;
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- Try
- uuencode >newname.uue TEST TEST
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- ...previous AmigaDOS needs redirection early in the command line.
- Next to that, maybe your uuencode version is bad. Mine works fine.
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- Bob Dickow (dickow@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu)
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