UUENCODE Question

[Ellen Kessler]

When I run the following command, an encoded version of a binary file
prints to the screen, but doesn't create a new encoded file. What am I
doing wrong or not doing?

encode sourcefilename newfilename

(Are there any requirments for the newfilename (file-label) or the
sourcefilename? These are important when running UUDECODE. In this case,
I renamed the sourcefile after I downloaded it. It was an MSWord doc and
I don't know if Word stores name data with the file.)

Thanks for any help.

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[Bill Karwin]

Ellen Kessler wrote:
>
> When I run the following command, an encoded version of a binary file
> prints to the screen, but doesn't create a new encoded file. What am I
> doing wrong or not doing?
>
> encode sourcefilename newfilename

The arguments to uuencode are (1) the file to encode and
(2) the name that the file should be when you decode it.
The encoded stream is printed to stdout, and you should
redirect it with > filename.uu. I usually don't care
what the filename.uu is called, because I am usually
going to send it via email (which doesn't even record
the name of the file) and then I remove the .uu file.

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Borland International InterBase Technical Services
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[Dustan Hellwig]

Ellen Kessler <e...@panix.com> wrote in article <51q022$6...@panix.com>...

> When I run the following command, an encoded version of a binary file
> prints to the screen, but doesn't create a new encoded file. What am I
> doing wrong or not doing?
>
> encode sourcefilename newfilename
>

Use the redirect function instead...

encode sourcefilename > newfilename

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[MARREEL CHRIS]

> DI think this is NOT correct !
The UUENCODE needs TWO arguments and that can be redirected, to a file or piped
into mailx...

The two arguments are :
1e argument : filename to encode
2e argument : filename that the de-coded file wil have. (it is this filename
that is saved in the BEGINning of the resulting uuencoded ascii-file.
Normaly you should use TWICE the SAME filename. The reason WHY two arguments, if in
generaly all the cases you should use TWICE the same name ? -> The FIRST can contain
a FULL PATHNAME and the second sould only contain the filename !
e.g. uuencode /users/loginname/directory/filename filename >
/users/loginname/direcotry/filename.uue
e.g. uuencode /users/loginname/directory/filename filename | mailx e-mail-adress@...

Greetings.