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
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