Re: [5.3-BETA6] uuencode

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:08:52PM +0300, Andrey Slusar wrote:

> > > uuencode is not worked under FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6
> 
> > Yes it does, this just isn't how you use it ;)

>   uuenview is worked:
> ,----
> | anray_at_santinel:~$ uuenview -u bash-completion-20040711.tar.gz 

Fine, but that's a different application with different syntax.

>   uuencode:
> ,----
> | anray_at_santinel:~$ uuencode bash-completion-20040711.tar.gz 
> | begin 644 bash-completion-20040711.tar.gz
> | 
> `----
>  ?

See the manpage:

uuencode [file] name

encodes <file> with name <name>.  If you omit <file> (i.e. give only
one argument), then it encodes stdin with output <name>.

Kris