From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 21 13:30:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98CCB37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8760E43EB3 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9LKU2x3005077 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9LKU2GG005076; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210212030.g9LKU2GG005076@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: bin/44339: uudecode example does not work Reply-To: Lowell Gilbert Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/44339; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Lowell Gilbert To: Slaven Rezic Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/44339: uudecode example does not work Date: 21 Oct 2002 16:24:37 -0400 Slaven Rezic writes: > >Description: > The last example from the uudecode documentation does not > work. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > The original example is: > > uudecode -o /dev/stdout < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv - > > I tried and got: > > $ uudecode -o /dev/stdout < uue | zcat | tar txv - > uudecode: /dev/stdout: stdin: Invalid argument > > zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file > tar: Unknown option. Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options. > Exit 1 > > where uue is: > > begin 660 bla.tar.gz > M'XL(`&8GM#T``^W2/4_#,!`&X,S^%4=`:I$:ZO0K4@V9&,N&Q,*2-">PVL:1 > M[2BM$/\=-Y01!J2JR_LL/M_9ULGVQ&_NFFUT5JF4BX6DB"C-YOT8_(S!3$Z( > MLOE\EDVSQ33$J MANV6DDZTCLEYJ]=>]?'S1HG=@6ZZE!["9+E\*G3]HNO*=$E>J3OZL3D,U > MK$GRE7:^-'LE0B[)=7V\]J$<4>S9^?CVE&^*]>84AM:JX>#^T;3EEI,T'XS( > MM25]B./7Z8^LPDYK#JK/5)HI9FN-I1T[5[SQ:QTK\1E._NEN94RC!.^U)ZG$ > @I5\```````````````````````#@?[X`(0R4BP`H```` > ` > Your input file is bogus (it has no end flag, for one thing), and you are passing an invalid set of flags to tar(1) as well (I suspect you wanted tfv, not txv). Could you try coming up with a syntactically correct example that demonstrates the problem you are actually trying to report? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message