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Re: [Omaha.pm] uuencode - C, Pascal, or Perl?
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- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:53:21 -0500
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Jay Hannah wrote:
> -laugh-
>
> The GNU sharutils bundle has uuencode in it. uuencode is a handy tool
> for emailing binary files to someone from the command line. It used to
> be standard on *nix, but not so much any more.
>
> Anyway, I think it's funny that the bundle lets you choose between 3
> implementations:
>
> 313 lines of C
> 202 lines of Pascal
> 10 (actually 5) lines of Perl
Heh heh. The C/Pascal versions must be implementing the uuencoding
themselves, whereas Perl already has it built in. Very handy.
I remember the days of uuencode, but can't say I've ever needed to do it
myself. If I wanted to transfer a binary, I used ftp.
Tim
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