Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:52:23 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu, wosch@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, mita@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -current uudecode can't grok one of japanese/vfxdvi's distfiles Message-ID: <199703251152.WAA25361@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Looking at the uudecode source, this change seems to be the difference. > >=== >revision 1.5 >date: 1997/02/18 17:49:43; author: wosch; state: Exp; lines: +32 -1 >Better check for detecting header line. A header line must match >"begin [0-7]* *". Now `begin with, ' is not a header line. > >Do a boundary check for body characters. Characters less than 33 or >greater than 96 are out of range. If characters are out of range >uudecode print a error message and die. >=== > >Is this check really necessary? This file used to decode fine with >the old decoder. Besides, I can't figure out for the life of myself >which character it's barfing on. Someone send me a uuencoded gzipped file with spaces in it. I changed the spaces to backquotes and it uudecoded correctly. Bruce
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