Sorry about the delay - I started this interesting exercise, but got distracted .....

Here's a simple script that handles uuencoding a file. It's been moderately, but not thoroughly, tested.

on mouseUp
   answer file "Select a file"
   if it is empty then exit mouseUp
   put URL ("binfile:" & it) into tOriginal
   -- put "Cat" into tOriginal
   put uuencode(tOriginal, "000", "text") into tEncoded
   put tEncoded after field "fLog"
put CR & the number of chars in tOriginal && the number of chars in tEncoded after field "fLog"
end mouseUp

function uuencode pData, pPermission, pName
   put 1 into tBase
   put "begin" && pPermission && pName & CR into tOutput

   put the number of chars in pData into tLen
   put numToChar(0) & numToChar(0) & numToChar(0) after pData

   put empty into tLine
   repeat until tBase > tLen-2   -- i.e. all full words before the padding
      put charToNum(byte tBase of pData) * 256 * 256 into t
      add charToNum(byte tBase+1 of pData) * 256 to t
      add charToNum(byte tBase+2 of pData) to t

      put numToChar((t mod 64)+32) into t4
      put t div 64 into t
      put numToChar((t mod 64)+32) into t3
      put t div 64 into t
      put numToChar((t mod 64)+32) into t2
      put t div 64 into t
      put numToChar(t+32) & t2 & t3 & t4 after tLine

      if the number of chars in tLine = 60 then
put numToChar(the number of chars in tLine * 3 / 4 + 32) & tLine & CR after tOutput
         put empty into tLine
      end if
      add 3 to tBase
   end repeat
   if tLine is not empty then
put numToChar(the number of chars in tLine * 3 / 4 + 32) & tLine & CR after tOutput
   end if
   put "`" & CR & "end" & CR after tOutput
   return tOutput
end uuencode


On 23/09/2010 19:56, Phil Davis wrote:
 Hi Matthias,

With LiveCode on Mac OS X you could use a shell() command and let the 'uuencode' line command do the work. Not sure about Windows... there doesn't seem to be a direct way to uuencode a file - no 'uuencode' command, nor any way to do it using PowerShell (AFAIK). Do you feel like writing your own LC uu library? That should be doable.

More info about the uuencode spec:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uuencode.html

Phil


On 9/23/10 7:42 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
Hi,

how can i uuencode data with LiveCode?
Do i need 3rd party tools for that? i cannot find anything about it, when searching the dictionary for uuencode.


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