Is ` allowed in uuencode'd files?
Wayne H Scott
wscott at en.ecn.purdue.edu
Fri Nov 16 10:02:46 AEST 1990
I ran in to an odd problem today.
I sent a file to a group of people using mail. To do this I
uuencoded the file and included it in the message.
A couple of the people reported that the file would not decode
correctly (short file) the rest of the people had no problems.
As it turns out, my uuencode create output with no spaces and
several "`" characters. The other peoples uuencode used
spaces with mine had `.
Output from my uuencode program:
begin 666 dialup
M,S`*14, at -#DT+34P,3(*140 at -#DT+38Q,#8*144 at -#DT+3<V.#,*144 at -#DT
[deleted]
M-#DT+3DP,S4*4$0 at -#DT+3DR.#(*4$, at -#DT+3<P-C0*04Y813(@-#DT+3DR
#,3`*
`
end
Output from some other uuencode program:
begin 666 dialup
M,S *14, at -#DT+34P,3(*140 at -#DT+38Q,#8*144 at -#DT+3<V.#,*144 at -#DT
[deleted]
M-#DT+3DP,S4*4$0 at -#DT+3DR.#(*4$, at -#DT+3<P-C0*04Y813(@-#DT+3DR
#,3 *
end
My uudecode will correctly decode both files. The other peoples uudecode
will only understand the second file.
Which is correct? Or more standard?
Anybody have some insight?
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