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- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!gryphon
- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Need help with uudecode/uuencode
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:29:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.182911.22465@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.151102.15205@NCRTimes.stpaul.ncr.com>
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- mathieu@ncrcis.stpaul.ncr.com (Tom Mathieu [7143]) writes:
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- >Here's what I enter:
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- >uuencode source.zip > source.uue
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- >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:
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- >uuencode source.zip newname.zip > source.uue
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- >Then when the file was uudecoded, it would have a new name.
-
- >Is anyone else having this problem? How do you fix it?
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- It's not a bug it's a feature. Suppose I'm in my $HOME, and I want to uuencode
- a file in a hideously long path, I could do this:
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- uuencode /usr/spool/uucppublic/archives/bar/hideously_long/file file > file.uu
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- Then when I uudecode it, it comes out as just "file".
-
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