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From: fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wanted: info on uued/decode from 0xx series fish disk
Message-ID: <1050.262611b5@dayton.saic.com>
Date: 13 Apr 90 21:51:49 GMT
References: <1790@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Organization: Science Applications Intl. Corp., Dayton, Ohio
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In article <1790@bnlux0.bnl.gov>, kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
> I have copied, and unzooed uued/decode package from uiuc ftp site.
> 
> All I want to do is to uudecode. However, is the uuencode SUPPOSED to work?
> That is, the binary included in the distribution. It seems to hang when I use
> it. From the unix man entry, it seems that it is designed to be used by piping
> the output directly to a mail program. Will it work on its own and on the 
> amiga?
> 
> Does the uudecode binary work?

	Yes it works.  Try:

  uuencode <Input.FileName >Output-UUencoded.FileName DestFileName

You encode Input.FileName, the output is Output-UUencoded,FileName and
the first line in the uuencoded file that defines what the filename will be 
when uudecoded is DestFileName.

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