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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
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- Subject: Re: UUencode
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 06:21:23 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- >Durwood Thrasher (thrasher@rkami2.ple.af.mil) wrote:
- >: I think it's a little more complicated than that. The format I have to use
- >: to get uuencode to work is:
- >:
- >: uuencode <myfile >newfilename myfile
- >:
- >: (Note that myfile appears twice.)
-
- >In that case, one instance of "myfile" is redundant. What exactly do each of
- >the two instances _mean_?
-
- The way it works on my UNIX server is:
-
- uuencode (file you want to encode) (filename you want the encoded file to
- decode with) > (filename of output file)
-
- So if I had an archive called stuff.lha:
-
- uuencode stuff.lha stuff.lha > uufile
-
- Works for me.. :)
-
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