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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: UUDECODE info. requested...what is first line?
Message-ID: <TADGUY.89Oct19205903@offa.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 00:59:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: mark@isi.UUCP's message of 19 Oct 89 12:46:36 GMT

In article <557@isi.UUCP> mark@isi.UUCP (Mark Bailey) writes:
   I have finally gotten around to writing UUDECODE on the local UNIX box.

Why not use one of the freely distributable ones available from most
archive sites?  (I think the one on the fish disks will compile ok on
UNIX as well).

   Question:  the amiga shar files I'm getting spit out a line like
   begin 644 name
   in front of all UUENCODED files.  I can get around this but was
   wondering if someone could e-mail me the official explanation and rules
   for this line.  Should my UUENCODE generate one?  Should I strip it
   before UUDECODING?

Yes, you had better generate a begin line if you want others to be
able to decode your files.  You should use the begin line when decoding:

``begin'' is a magic token that indicates the start of a uucode file.
All text until this token is ignored.

``644'' is the UNIX mode of the file.  Your uudecode should chmod(2)
your output file to this mode before exiting.

``name'' is the filename the uudecoded output should be placed in.

	...tad