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From: jmorton@euler.Berkeley.EDU (John Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: uud bit me again
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Date: 2 Oct 89 20:08:25 GMT
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I don't have a copy of Steven Grimm's "Welcome to Binaries"
message before me, but as I remember it does not mention
the following treachery of uudecode (or at least not strongly
enough!):

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.
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.

Why is this designed into such a great program?

Sorry if this is old news; when you're mad, bandwidth means nothing. 


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