[11343] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: uuencode
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@MIT.EDU)
Sun Nov 7 10:09:26 1993
From: probe@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 10:09:19 -0500
To: banerji@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From the man page:
Syntax
uuencode [file] remotedest | mail sys1!sys2!..!decode
uudecode [file]
Please notice that the uuencode syntax is:
uuencode [file] remotedest
This means that [file] is an optional argument and that remotedest is a
required argument. Therefore, if only one argument is supplied, it is
assumed to be the name of the remote file, and the man page later goes
on to explain that if [file] is not specified, the default is stdin.
I think what makes the man page possibly a little more confusing to read
is the fact that uudecode is right under the uuencode, and has a similar
syntax. With uudecode, you can either use stdin or a specified file
from which to decode a uuencode'd file.
Because it is working as documented, and is consistent with all the
other vendors' versions of the same utilities, this is not likely to
change.
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask an OLC consultant,
or if you have a suggestion for a change, please send that suggestion to
<suggest@mit.edu> (I can never remember the full name of
software_suggestions), and please feel free to report anything that you
consider a bug to <bugs@mit.edu>.
-Richard Basch
IS/Athena Development
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>Type and version: KN02ca 7.6G
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>What were you trying to do?
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>Use uuencode
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>What's wrong:
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>On a dec, the man page says that I should be able to type
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> uuencode file
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>and stdout should be the uuencoded file. However, I have
>to type in
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> uuencode file < file
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>What should have happened:
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>Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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