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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A working UUEncode
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Date: 27 Mar 90 00:32:58 GMT
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In <1600@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>, beo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (BeO de PeO) writes:
>In some article lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>In another article nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes:
>>>[Some things about UUencode]
>>>It seems like I used it like this: 'uuencode source_file dest_file' or
>>>'uuencode source_file >dest_file'.
>
>>Larry writes:
>>uuencode localfile remotefile >filename
>
>This doesn't work, unfortunately, if you are using the default
>Shell (I don't know about CShell and those). It has to be:
>
>1>uuencode >UUencodedFile InputFile NameOfInputFile
>
>this because the redirection-file has to first on the command-line
>after the command.

Ahh! Right you are. I am so used to putting my redirection operators wherever
they seem right, that I forgot about the standard CLI/Shell requirement that
they go first. Couln't live wihout my WShell.

-larry

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