Re: history of system
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 21:08 +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 01:54:48PM -0400, Bill Marcum wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:18:36AM +0100, michael wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 00:34 -0500, a.list.address@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On 4/25/05, michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > cHBwICgyLjQuMy0yMDA0MTIzMSszKSB1bnN0YWJsZTsgdXJnZW5jeT1tZWRpdW0KCiAgKiBSZW1v
> > > > > dmVkIHBhdGNoIDA1N19wcHBvZS1pbnRlcmZhY2UtY2hhbmdlIHdoaWNoIHdhcyByZWZ1c2VkIGJ5
> > > > > IHRoZQogICAgdXBzdHJlYW0gbWFpbnRhaW5lci4gTm93IHVzZXJzIG11c3QgYXJyYW5nZSBmb3Ig
> > > > > dGhlIGV0aGVybmV0CiAgICBpbnRlcmZhY2UgdXNlZCBmb3IgUFBQb0UgdG8gYmUgdXAuCiAgKiBU
> > > > > aGUgUFBQb0EgcGx1Z2luIGRvZXMgbm90IHJlcXVpcmUgYW55bW9yZSB0aGUgbGliYXRtMSBwYWNr
> > > > > YWdlIHRvIGJlCiAgICBpbnN0YWxsZWQuCgogLS0gTWFyY28gZCdJdHJpIDxtZEBsaW51eC5pdD4g
> > > > > IFN1biwgMjAgRmViIDIwMDUgMjA6MzQ6MDAgKzAxMDAK
> > > > >
> > > > > &
> > > >
> > > > Well, as you can see by the header, it's base64-encoded.
> > >
> > > But uudecode couldn't decode it...
> > >
> > uudecode only decodes uuencoded messages.
>
> Actually, uudecode is able to decode it. It needs a little tweaking,
> however. Just wrap the encoded block in two lines as follows
>
> begin-base64 640 filename.out
> cHBwICgyLjQuMy0yMDA0MTIzMSszKSB1bnN0YWJsZTsgdXJnZW5jeT1tZWRpdW0KCiAgKiBSZW1v
> (...)
> IFN1biwgMjAgRmViIDIwMDUgMjA6MzQ6MDAgKzAxMDAK
> ====
neat trick - well worth (trying to!) remember!
(NB: is the '640' related to length of file or just 'the' number to use?
can't see much discussion of this in `man uuencode`)
ta, Micahel
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