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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A working UUEncode
Keywords: unix uuencode
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Date: 23 Mar 90 20:38:49 GMT
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In <1966@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>, nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes:
>Not too long ago I tried to get a program up to a UNIX machine, but had little
>luck due to lack of being able to uuencode the .zoo file. I vaguely remember 
>talk in the distant past about a problem with uuencode (approx. Fish58 & 92). 
>Does it work or is there a better way available? It seems like I used it like
>this: 'uuencode source_file dest_file' or 'uuencode source_file >dest_file' but
>after about 5 minutes I would kill it and find a destination file of about 25
>bytes. I was getting the impression it was using the terminal for input instead
>of the source_file.

uuencode localfile remotefile >filename

Where 'localfile' is the file you wish to uuencode, 'remotefile' is the name
it will have after it is uudecoded, and 'filename' is the name of the file
produced by uuencode. 

-larry

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