Matthew Woehlke wrote: > apparently uudecode is also out; my computer has man pages for it > but no programs(?!). Conversely, I can't say I've run into a system > yet that lacks printf. > > So my original question remains... would anyone be interested in > considering 'unprintf' for inclusion in coreutils? (Note: I /am/ > volunteering to write and maintain it.)
If your requirement is that the command must already exist on the system then that definitely defeats the addition of a new command. Also uuencode/uudecode is many times more standard than some not yet created command. Note that shar has traditionally included the C source code to a simple uudecode such that it would be compiled on the target system and created on the fly if it did not exist. The decoder can be very small. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
