hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) (10/10/89)
Gee I am disturbed by the thought that Tanenbaum is going to use uuencode to post the 1.4b version to avoid problems with Bitnet and will still have Bitnet problems. That is the Minix version of uuencode does not work. It uses space characters and Bitnet strips space which precedes new lines. In particular the line preceding the END statement is just such a case. Trying to uudecode such a file that has passed through Bitnet, it uudecode with an error message and since the file count is short it also doesn't find the end statement and appends a lot of garbage to the file. Thus would someone on Bitnet who has a usable version of uuencode such as the Demus version please send the source code to Tanenbaum or better yet post to the net. Robert R. Hall hall@nosc.mil
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/12/89)
In article <1661@cod.NOSC.MIL> hall@cod.NOSC.MIL (Robert R. Hall) writes: > >Gee I am disturbed by the thought that Tanenbaum is going to use >uuencode to post the 1.4b version to avoid problems with Bitnet Actually it isn't that bad, since I am going to build the posting on a Sun-3, using Sun's uuencode. Still, if there is a bug in the MINIX version of uuencode, I am certainly interested in a fix. Needless to say, any new version must be compatible with the existing uuencode/uudecode in use all over the place. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)