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- From: jc@skyking.uucp (J.C. Webber III)
- Subject: Re: Need help with uudecode/uuencode
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.035724.18907@skyking.uucp>
- Organization: Skyking Enterprises
- References: <1992Dec14.151102.15205@NCRTimes.stpaul.ncr.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:57:24 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.151102.15205@NCRTimes.stpaul.ncr.com> mathieu@ncrcis.stpaul.ncr.com (Tom Mathieu [7143]) writes:
-
- ->Here's what I enter:
- ->uuencode source.zip > source.uue
- ->Nothing happens (the server just sits there).
- ->It seems to me that our uuencode has changed, because the man
- ->page used to tell you that you could include the "extracted" name
- ->on the command line like this:
- ->uuencode source.zip newname.zip > source.uue
- ->Then when the file was uudecoded, it would have a new name.
- ->Is anyone else having this problem? How do you fix it?
- ->Thanks
-
- I believe your answer is staring you in the face 8^).
-
- Try uuencode source.zip source.zip > source.uue
-
- Enen if you are not changing the name, you still have to provide the
- "new" name. In the about example, that means repeating the original
- name. Hope this helps.
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