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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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