uuencode help

David M. Cook dcook at redhat.com
Mon Sep 10 11:22:17 EDT 2001


On 10 Sep 2001 16:07:48 +0200, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>the range of characters used is ASCII 0x20-0x5f, whereas Linux
>uuencode apparently uses 0x21-0x60 (with 0x60 representing a value of
>0). This appears to be the BSD definition of the uuencode format, see

Ah, thanks.  Then I should take a look at the slrn source, then, as its
built-in uudecode does not seem to be able to handle the former encoding.

Dave Cook



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