Re: uuencode not working at all

[Ben Gardiner]

More hostile than simpler ...  Yes and I yearn for the old Model Å Ford that
was so much fun to work on.  I even like steam locomotives.  But I have to
agree that the whole tech picture is now better.

Thanks for enlightening me about the hyphen.

Åbout passwords, someone told me you can set a site to ignore passwords when
dealing with a specified other site.  It's not something I want to do as it
seems to be an unnecessary security risk.  Maybe okay inside a LAN but not
out in the open.

Ben

On 2/2/08, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ben Gardiner wrote:
> > This syntax sent to me works okay:
> >
> > cat INFILE | uuencode - >OUTFILE
> >
> > which I got from Bauke Jan Douma, not from the man page, and he drew
> > attention to the essential hyphen in the line.
>
> That hyphen is simply the name to be recorded in the file as the
> (eventual) output filename.  If you look at the first line of the
> uuencoded file you will see it there.  Something like this:
>
>   begin 664 somefilenamehere
>
> > However I have decided on another strategy, since the uuencoded file is
> so
> > big it needs to be split in order to pass through various email
> > gates.
>
> [...alarm bells ringing in my head...]
>
> But mail is not really a file transfer protocol.  It may get stored
> and forwarded on many 3rd party systems as it progresses along.  Best
> not to be used for large files.  (Yes, I know it has been done that
> way for years but still...)
>
> > The other strategy is simply to establish a login account for my
> > client and put the HUGE file there rather than email it to them.
>
> Placing a large file on an ftp, http, https, or ssh/sftp site is
> definitely a better way to go.
>
> > Another mode of transmission that works fine is by scp but I do not want
> to
> > automate that because of the need for a password at the receiving end.
>
> If you don't want to deal with passwords then anonymous ftp download
> or http download is definitely preferred.
>
> > It was indeed simpler in former years.
>
> Ha!  If you are having trouble mailing large files now then you would
> never have been able to mail that through a long chain of uucp mail
> forwarders.  It may be a more hostile network now but generally it is
> also much more capable.
>
> Bob
>



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