Alan Eugene Davis writes:
> I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian
> distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in
> former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any
> file in uuencoded format.
It's still there. Are you sure you saw the uuencode(1) page instead of
uuencode(5)?
> Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now?
> The command I am trying to use is:
> cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]>
Try
tar cf - FILE | gzip -9 | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
or even
tar cfz - FILE | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Olaf Weber
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