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: > > $ 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?
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 -- If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday?
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