Hi Simon, [For background, see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-08/msg00336.html ]
I'm sure you recall that the base64 program (relatively new to coreutils) cannot decode its own output, unless we resort to use of the sledgehammer --ignore-garbage option. This is a pretty ugly wart on base64 (both the gnulib module and the coreutils program). There should be a way to decode base64 data with interspersed newlines, but without requiring applications to pre-process the data solely to remove those bytes. Since you're the one who contributed this code, (this is how I say "thanks" :-) I get to ask, "Will you have time to resolve this cleanly?" Jim _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
