jvc@mirror.COM (Jim Champeaux) (05/18/87)
It seems that some uuencoded postings are being stripped of trailing
spaces. This program was posted in comp.sys.ibm.pc but apparently most
people missed it. I've used it on a couple of files that were altered
and it seems to work.
Please consider posting it here.
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>Uudecode reports "short file" and the resulting arc520.com does not
>unarc itself.
>I used UNIX uudecode on a pyramid 90x.
The reason is that some mailer, somewhere, removed all of the trailing space.
Uudecode don't like it (at least here). So, I wrote a little program to put
it back. I have tried the resulting arc520.com, and it seems to work.
uucp: mcvax!cernvax!cui!Fisch / Fisch@cui.uucp
X400/ean: Fisch@cui.unige.chunet
bitnet/earn: Fisch%cui.unige.chunet@cernvax
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/*
Try to repair uuencoded files when trailing space has been removed.
It pads short lines with spaces whenever needed.
It reads from stdin and writes to stdout.
use: pgm <uuencoded > repaired
uudecode repaired
or: pgm <uuencoded | uudecode
If it doesn't work, I can't help you.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
char c;
int tab, len;
tab = 0;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
{
if (tab == 0)
{
if (' '<=c && c<='Z') len = ((c-' '+2)/3)*4+1;
else len = 1;
}
if (c == '\n')
{
while (tab++<len) putchar(' ');
tab = 0;
}
else tab++;
putchar (c);
}
}
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