🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Jan 1993 05:30:23 GMT dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) said:
]mendez@taliesin.greco-prog.fr (Marc Mendez) wrote in
]<1993Jan21.183512.26171@greco-prog.fr>:

]| I would like to uudecode files I receive by mail. But I need to keep
]| the order of the files (which is not respected all the time in the mail
]| list). Can I tag files in the order I want and then uudecode them
]| (with a pipe, I suppose) ? If yes, how ?

]First, there should be no need to uudecode the files in any particular order.
]The "begin" header of a uuencode gives the name that the uudecoded file will
]have, and if the uuencodes were part of a single distribution every single
]one will have a unique name in its "begin" header for the uudecoded version
]of its own contents.

I respectfully disagree when a file has been uuencoded and *then*
split up into chunks which will make it through the network(s).
In this case there will be only one item where the uuencoded data
is preceded by a "begin", and only one ending on "end"...

The way I do what Marc Mendez seems to be asking is:
 - Copy all the relevant items to a separate folder, ONE BY ONE
   and IN THE CORRECT SEQUENCE.
 - Edit this folder, deleting all the extraneous lines between
   the chunks of uuencoded data.
 - Then kick uudecode to do its thing to the edited folder.
If I made a mistake, I CAN start over again, because I COPIED the
original items from my mail folder.

Regards.
$$\    F. Scott Ophof

--------------------------->  I speak *only* for *myself*  <-----
My credo:  Computers exist for OUR benefit, NEVER vice-versa.