Why can't I do this: uuencode -m /mnt/kd/xyz/myfile.csv > stuff ?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Feb 23 00:44:02 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 22 February 2006 4:23 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > The current busybox source is wrong here.  I'll fix it after I run a few
>  > errands...
>
> i haven't yet seen or created an example of the busybox uuencode
> doing the wrong thing.  what's not working?

Looking closer the spec is telling it to do things that are non-obvious and 
stupid.  The command line interface is _pathologically_ designed.  It's just 
a broken app that no distros ship anymore.  I'm going to ignore it.

> paul

Rob
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