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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:03:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uuencode(1) doesn't work?
Message-ID:  <20040604090033.D1201@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <002101c449fe$edf7b010$0a2a15ac@spud>
References:  <002101c449fe$edf7b010$0a2a15ac@spud>

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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, 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:
>
> $ 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
> $
>
> Specifying a filename, rather than using a pipe, doesn't seem to work
> either:
>
> $ uuencode file
> begin 644 file
>
> 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()).
>
> Anyone know why?

Try:

date | uuencode -o date.uu date

date will be the name of the file after (later) uudecoding, and date.uu
will be the uuencoded transport file.

Regards

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