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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: UUencode
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 12:25:53
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- Kerry Hales (maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com) wrote:
- : I was wondering how I can uuencode a file and have it save to the
- : disk, rather than print to screen.
- :
- : I have tried this:
- : uuencode "myfile" "newfilename" >destinationdrive
-
- uuencode myfile >newfilename
-
- ">" is the redirection operator, i.e. any console output from uuencode will
- be redirected to the file "newfilename", overwriting any existing file of that
- name.
-
- There is an analagous "<" operator, which allows a program to take console
- input _from_ a file. There is also ">>", which allows you to _append_ to a
- file, rather than overwriting it.
-
- -- Mat.
-