Hello Denis,
>>Do you use uuencode just because it's cool? It's also harder to use
>>(most newer mail readers won't have tools to unpack it,
>>need to do it by hand).
no I'm using Outlook Express and had just attached the file and included the 
patch inline in the mail.
...
I saw that uuencode was set to the default mail format - fixed

Thanx for pointing that out.
Best regards
Harald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denis Vlasenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Harald Küthe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tar: enhanced compatibility to old versions


On Wednesday 20 June 2007 22:41, Harald Küthe wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> bb-1.6.0 is not able to unpack the attached file
> (ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATIBILITY is set)
> Following patch adds support for e.g. checksums with spaces as delimiter.
>
> Best regards
> Harald

Applied. But:

> patch:
> --- busybox-1.6.0.orig/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c 2007-06-01
> 13:48:31.000000000 +0200
> +++ busybox-1.6.0/archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c 2007-06-20
> 22:11:19.000000000 +0200
> ...

# patch -p1 </tmp/old_tar.txt --dry-run
patching file archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 36.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 127.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
archival/libunarchive/get_header_tar.c.rej

> begin 666 bb-test.tar.gz
> M'XL(`````````RHN34K)+#+4+TDM+M$KJ2AAH $P-# P,S%18%!0,#0T1J&A
> MP,A(P=# S-C4U-3(S-P<*&!N;&RLP# *: ]R,O-2#;E I!&8-.8:#9-1, I&
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]"0````#__P,`JEYD&P`(````
> `
> end

Do you use uuencode just because it's cool? It's also harder to use
(most newer mail readers won't have tools to unpack it,
need to do it by hand).
--
vda 


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