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In article <Oct.24.13.26.49.1990.4850@pilot.njin.net> lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes:
>
>I have a quick question.  At the beginning of a UUencoded file there
>is a line that says
>begin <mode> <filename>
>What is the function of the mode number?  Is it used for a checksum of
>some type?  I have looked at the source of a version of uuencode and
>it makes calls to a function called umask and fstat.  I know fstat
>returns information about a file, like file size, type, etc.  It also
>returns mode.  The struct stat is defined in stat.h.  On the Prime
>system I am trying to modify the code on, the struct stat in stat.h 
>doesn't return mode (or at least I can't find it in the struct stat.
>So, if someone could explain what uuencode does with the <mode> number
>and how uudecode uses it etc, it might help me in the conversion.

Just hack the code to ignore the mode information.  This number applies
to Unix systems and defines who has what permissions.  When uuencoding
just put something like 0640 in that field and anyone creating the file
on a Unix box should be happy.  (That gives the owner of the file the
right to read and write it, others in his/her group read priviledges
and prevents anyone else on the system from accessing the file.)

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