Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:02:08 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uuencode(1) doesn't work? Message-ID: <20040604070208.GB52278@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <002101c449fe$edf7b010$0a2a15ac@spud> References: <002101c449fe$edf7b010$0a2a15ac@spud>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:41:08PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > I'm trying to uuencode some data, but uuencode doesn't seem to work > properly. I'm using FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p22. Here are some examples: >=20 > $ date | uuencode > usage: uuencode [-m] [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile > b64encode [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile > $ cat /etc/rc.conf | uuencode > usage: uuencode [-m] [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile > b64encode [-o outfile] [infile] remotefile > $ >=20 > Specifying a filename, rather than using a pipe, doesn't seem to work > either: >=20 > $ uuencode file > begin 644 file >=20 > After printing the begin line it idles. A debug copy of uuencode run > with gdb shows the program stopping on the read() call trying to get > data (fread() called from the while loop in encode()). >=20 > Anyone know why? It has insane arcane syntax -- you need to specify 'file' because that's what's written in the begin line, PLUS you need to give it data: $ uuencode file < file > file.uu should work. --Stijn --=20 If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday? --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAwB5wY3r/tLQmfWcRAg+SAJ40k9IV0EAYq3XlFh1PCDZfIYuvqgCgkWxd teCcdaQDfCVnkwMzQB6p4Hc= =jvy4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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