Re: uuencode/uudecode?

[Olaf Weber <infovore@xs4all.nl>]

Alan Eugene Davis writes:

> I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian
> distributions.  The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in
> former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any
> file in uuencoded format.

It's still there.  Are you sure you saw the uuencode(1) page instead of
uuencode(5)?

> Where can I find that package?  Or how would I do it now?

> The command I am trying to use is:

>   cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <email@address>

Try

    tar cf - FILE | gzip -9 | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <email@address>

or even

    tar cfz - FILE | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <email@address>

-- 
Olaf Weber


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