Re: [PATCH] uudecode doesn't work on files with DOS line endings

[Bruce Korb]

> More accurately, it's pre-OS X *software* rather than pre-OS X *operating
> systems* that use the newline = \r convention.  Plenty of such software
> still runs on OS X, and it's more or less unpredictable what you get
> nowadays: there are even two versions of Perl, a Unix one and a Mac
> Classic
> one, e.g., which can cause confusions, since Perl's "\n" means 0x0D rather
> than 0x0A in the Mac Classic version.


Then it is unlikely to be an issue.  The source of the problem is most
likely to be
a mail program saving an attachment.  So, the few remaining folks out there
still using OS9 mail programs who receive uuencoded files via email and need
to
decipher them with current versions of the sharutils can use some
os9-to-unix
converter.  The effort to do that is certainly less than the effort to
support the
configuration.  :)  Cheers - Bruce