Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!grapevine!sgrimm@sun.com From: sgrimm@sun.com (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: uud bit me again Message-ID: <34435@grapevine.uucp> Date: 3 Oct 89 14:53:12 GMT References: <17919@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@grapevine.EBay Reply-To: sgrimm@sun.com (Steven Grimm) Organization: Sun Microsystems Federal, Milpitas, CA Lines: 27 In article <17919@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu (John Morton) writes: >The first file in a uuencoded set has a name on the "begin" >line such that if the file is named with that name, the newly opened >arc file (with the same name) will immediately trash it. Yes, uud probably should warn you about that. It's easily tweakable if you have the source. >What makes this treacherous is that the _other_ parts of >the uuencoded set _must_ be named with the name on the >"begin" line for uud to find them. What I usually do is save the parts to "part01", "part02", and so on, then % cat p* >foo % uud foo If uud can't find a file of the appropriate name, it continues to scan the file it's on. I'll add a warning about this to the binaries intro, though (which should be coming your way later today.) --- This message is a figment of your imagination. Any opinions are yours. Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st sgrimm@sun.com ...!sun!sgrimm