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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:04:49 -0500
From:      parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, pirat@access.inet.co.th, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uuencode takes very long time
Message-ID:  <20030316210449.GC34213@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <20030316204103.GB5607@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>
References:  <20030316113452.GA309@thai-aec.org> <200303161153.h2GBrk620041@lakes.dignus.com> <20030316203223.GA34213@moo.holy.cow> <20030316204103.GB5607@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>

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in message <20030316204103.GB5607@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>, wrote Stijn
Hoop thusly...
>
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 03:32:23PM -0500, parv wrote:
> > in message <200303161153.h2GBrk620041@lakes.dignus.com>, wrote
> > Thomas David Rivers thusly...
> > >
> > > pirat <pirat@access.inet.co.th> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > uuencode my-pr.tar.gz > my-pr.uue
> > ...
> > >  you see, when you had "uuencode my-pr.tar.gz", you were not
> > >  trying to uuencode the file "my-pr.tar.gz" - that parameter
> > >  provides the name to use when uudecoding
...
> > Are you mad, man?  It is certainly possible that in the 2d case,
> > encoded file & the original would be corrupted/incomplete
>
> Reread the man page.

Yes, i need to; carefully this time.


> The first argument in the 2nd case is the name of the file that
> a subsequent uu_de_code will produce. The output of uuencode is
> written to stdout by default so no file gets overwritten.


Also, in message <200303162037.h2GKbUn20714@lakes.dignus.com>,
wrote Thomas David Rivers thusly...
>
>  I think you're mis-understanding...

I did.


>  When two options are presented to uuencode, the first one names
>  the input file to read.
>
>  The second provides the name of the resulting file when it is
>  decoded (presumably at some future time, on a different machine.)

Oh crap!  I see error of my ways!

I apologize, Thomas, for calling you a mad in this particular thread.


After all, there is no need for a PR or for the OP to install the
uudeview port (unless one wants to do away w/ the "name" parameter
while encoding).


  - parv

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