Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!hplabs!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!hart From: hart@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: uudecode - missing blanks Message-ID: <8809220614.AA08171@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL> Date: 22 Sep 88 06:14:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To:Organization: The Internet Lines: 62 [] Some mailers do indeed throw away blanks at the end of the line. There is however no problem to add them back, since the length of the line is encoded in the first character. Following is a simple program to do just that. I don't remember where I got it from, but it works! ==================================================================== /* Try to repair uuencoded files when trailing space has been removed. It pads short lines with spaces whenever needed. It reads from stdin and writes to stdout. use: pgm repaired uudecode repaired or: pgm main() { char c; int tab, len; tab = 0; while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) { if (tab == 0) { if (' '<=c && c<='Z') len = ((c-' '+2)/3)*4+1; else len = 1; } if (c == '\n') { while (tab++