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 Konrad Heuer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
