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- NAME
- uuencode - encode a binary file
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- uudecode - decode a file created by uuencode
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- SYNOPSIS
- uuencode [ file ] name
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- uudecode [ file ]...
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- DESCRIPTION
- Uuencode and uudecode are used to transmit binary files
- over transmission mediums that do not support other than
- simple ASCII data.
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- Uuencode reads file (or by default the standard input) and
- writes an encoded version to the standard output. The
- encoding uses only printing ASCII characters and includes
- the mode of the file and the operand name for use by uude-
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- Uudecode transforms uuencoded files (or by default, the
- standard input) into the original form. The resulting
- file is named name and will have the mode of the original
- file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained.
- Uudecode ignores any leading and trailing lines.
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- EXAMPLES
- The following example packages up a source tree, com-
- presses it, uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another
- system. When uudecode is run on the target system, the
- file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be created which may then be
- uncompressed and extracted into the original tree.
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- tar cf - src_tree | compress | uuencode
- src_tree.tar.Z | mail sys1!sys2!user
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- SEE ALSO
- compress(1), mail(1), uucp(1), uuencode(5)
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- BUGS
- The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes
- become 4 plus control information).
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- HISTORY
- The uuencode command appeared in BSD 4.0.
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