Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: uudecoding blues
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 06:47:16 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.064716.4270@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Distribution: na
References: <1991Apr14.035919.8473@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>

In article <1991Apr14.035919.8473@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> skesterk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane Kesterke) writes:
>Does anyone know how to keep trailing spaces in uuencoded files from
>getting stripped off? Everytime I get a uuencoded e-mail message I keep
>getting "short file" whenever I try to uudecode it and I'm sure it's
>because the trailing spaces get stripped off. 

Just add spaces to the end of the lines.  I've received uuencoded mail
with trailing spaces deleted and have successfully uudecoded them by
adding spaces to the end of all lines between the `begin' and `end'
lines.
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