uuencode(1) doesn't work?

[Konrad Heuer]

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

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