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Subject: Re: uudecode problems
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Date: 9 Aug 89 10:19:53 GMT
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Hello all,

Mike Higgs  writes:

>I just got the fixes.atari01 -10 down to my minix disks, and tried to uudecode
>the files. ...
>                    ....at the end of each line, there is a reverse video

Mike, I think you forgot the -a switch while using tosread to get the uuencoded
files to your Minix disk.  This switch tells tosread to leave out ASCII CR 0x0d
characters, since the standard *nix EOLN is a single LF 0x0a.

The extra CRs in turn confuse the uudecode program.  If you use -a, you should
be abble to uudecode just fine.  If you get the message "no end line", you can
use a recently posted fix to uudecode, which avoids this.  Alternatively, try
to append/delete a blank line to the end of the file (forgot which).

One of these days I'm going to port the Dumas UUE/UUD package. If someone has
already done this, maybe he/she can post the binary (sources are available at
several servers).

Hope this helps.

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