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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: uuencode
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Date: 7 Oct 90 00:27:37 GMT
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In <10121.AA10121@caleb>, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
> [ #include dumb joke here. ]

Q: Why did the punk rocker cross the road?
A: He had a chicken stapled to his cheek.

>Hello,
>       I have a question about the uuencode that is provided with the
>various versions of the Amiga uucp software.  The help line prints:
>
>Usage: uuencode [infile] remotefile
>
>It doesn't seem to have an option to write the output to a file.  I've
>tried using redirection (>) and pipes, but it simply hangs when I do
>these things.  How do I get the output to a file?

It works fine with redirection. Remember though, that unless you are running a
shell that supports placing the redirection operator anywhere on the line, that
you must place the redirection as the first thing after the command.

So, you've just put a bunch of stuff in a temp file called T:foo.zoo, and you
want to uuencode it such that it extracts as Wonderprog.zoo ...

uuencode >file.to.be.mailed t:foo.zoo Wonderprog.zoo

-larry

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