A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1544 ====================================================================== Reported By: calestyo Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1544 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: Resolution Proposed Name: Christoph Anton Mitterer Organization: User Reference: Section: uudecode Page Number: 3357 Line Number: 113061-113063 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1544#c5711 ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2022-01-08 03:21 UTC Last Modified: 2022-03-03 03:12 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: uudecode: standardise or at least reserve - as another special symbol for decoding to stdout ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0005727) calestyo (reporter) - 2022-03-03 03:12 https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1544#c5727 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1544#c5722 Looks quite good to me, but I'd change the following: 1) Regarding your: > On page 3276, after line 111305, Application Usage, > add a paragraph: > > In order to create an output file named - it needs > to be specified as, for example, -o ./-, since - alone is > considered a special name by uudecode. - perhaps don't use "special name", when "magic cookie" is used before - or better: change "magic cookie" everywhere to "special name" or even "special name (which doesn't refer to a filename). - give the same example on how to create /dev/stdout, e.g. '//dev/stdout' or '/./dev/stdout' 2) And the same for uuencode at "page 3281 after line 111490 add a new paragraph", that is: - also give the example on how to create /dev/stdout, e.g. '//dev/stdout' or '/./dev/stdout' 3) Change page 3276 lines 111316-111318 from: Change: "The /dev/stdout concept exists on most modern systems. The /dev/stdout syntax does not refer to a new special file." To (something like): "A special file /dev/stdout, that prints any data written to it to the respective process’ standard output, exists on most modern systems. The /dev/stdout syntax however does not refer to such special file." I think that would explain better what's happening there, perhaps one could even add that the special file, would still work as a "fallback" if some implementation "forgot" to handle the special name/magic cookie. Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2022-01-08 03:21 calestyo New Issue 2022-01-08 03:21 calestyo Name => Christoph Anton Mitterer 2022-01-08 03:21 calestyo Section => uudecode 2022-01-08 03:21 calestyo Page Number => N/A 2022-01-08 03:21 calestyo Line Number => N/A 2022-01-10 10:08 geoffclare Note Added: 0005584 2022-01-10 15:16 calestyo Note Added: 0005586 2022-01-11 00:19 alanc Note Added: 0005592 2022-02-24 09:24 Don Cragun Page Number N/A => 3357 2022-02-24 09:24 Don Cragun Line Number N/A => 113061-113063 2022-02-24 09:24 Don Cragun Interp Status => --- 2022-02-24 15:51 shware_systems Note Added: 0005707 2022-02-24 16:01 calestyo Note Added: 0005708 2022-02-24 16:26 geoffclare Note Added: 0005709 2022-02-24 16:39 calestyo Note Added: 0005710 2022-02-24 17:33 geoffclare Note Added: 0005711 2022-02-24 17:35 geoffclare Final Accepted Text => https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1544#c5711 2022-02-24 17:35 geoffclare Status New => Resolution Proposed 2022-02-24 21:34 calestyo Note Added: 0005712 2022-02-24 23:23 kre Note Added: 0005713 2022-02-25 03:08 calestyo Note Edited: 0005712 2022-02-25 03:13 calestyo Note Added: 0005715 2022-02-25 10:07 geoffclare Note Added: 0005717 2022-02-25 10:08 geoffclare Note Edited: 0005717 2022-02-25 15:46 kre Note Added: 0005718 2022-03-01 11:45 geoffclare Note Added: 0005722 2022-03-02 09:49 quinq Note Added: 0005724 2022-03-02 12:50 steffen Note Added: 0005725 2022-03-03 02:51 calestyo Note Added: 0005726 2022-03-03 02:59 calestyo Note Edited: 0005726 2022-03-03 03:12 calestyo Note Added: 0005727 ======================================================================
