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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Dumas encode -- possible bug
Message-ID: <1545@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 05:10:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: bath63.1545
Posted: Mon Aug  3 05:10:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Aug-87 09:01:53 EDT
References: <2604@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Organization: AUCC c/o University of Bath
Lines: 27
Keywords: short last line

In article <2604@dalcs.UUCP> silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert) writes:
>I've run into a recurrent bug with multipart uuencoded files from the
>net.  The last line appears truncated at the beginning.  Here is a
>sample from the recent posting of turtle.arc -- this is the last part of
>the fifth file, turtle.uue:
>
>M1S 5 /#;B]'P=[_=&3\ URT $3 $DIW<:.'>,@_T1D\ )" 5:'$1O^WH Q$0e
>M*$#<*0 * :$"!@< *V 2 , "X=T"%0$7O>T"FOX"]OWH%3$5)C$59WT5%7$5e
>EV! 0-6#?70$) 0$ -T#<.&#?B69P * #QY3JJ,X#V/ 0*  : #$5e
> e
>end

Prima facie, that looks like a totally reasonable way for a uuencoded file
to end, to me.  What makes you think it's been truncated?  The last 'encoded'
line (one beginning with 'E' above) is *usually* (59/60ths of the time?)
shorter than the preceding encoded lines, and (perforce) starts with a char
other than 'M'.

For a concise description (though not the world's best read) of UUENCODED
format, see UUENCODE(5) in the Unix Programmer's Manual Reference Guide,
or try 'man uuencode' on your nearest friendly Un*x system.

Just witter on a bit now, to make my comment longer than the quote, so that
the silly mailer will accept this comment.  Wonder how much extra net
traffic *that* silly rule generates?

No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.