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Article #4496uud bit me again
From: John Morton
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 20:08
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1989 20:08
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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. "Down John Morton M.E. Machine Shop Down in the basement jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu Etcheverry Hall We hear the sound of machines..." Univ. of Calif.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!euler.Berkeley.EDU!jmorton From: jmorton@euler.Berkeley.EDU (John Morton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: uud bit me again Message-ID: <17919@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Oct 89 20:08:25 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: jmorton@euler.berkeley.edu (John Morton) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20