Hi, I use to:
cat <filename> | uuencode <filename> | mail -s <filename> <somebody> To transfer files. But I had problems transmiting a large one (almost 4 Mb) that I tried several times. I decided to take a look, and generated a uuencode, and then mailed this uuencode to myself (local machine), and compared the two of them. The diff showd that every once in a while there was a line with missing characters, like the second one in this excerpt: -----corrupted file------ MH"CF)1?.$4^_13N8_F_159#G4/3SPO,H!GMA((I7O##T+=KW83SU(:H=5+R^ VV[89A+\%889A,L#L,[EMAIL PROTECTED]"78A0M:@B-A^([EMAIL PROTECTED]">Z$82E! M.`*K">Z)P`J":A'XEJ!)!#81M(O`5JK<H1$8B=F:&I%K[U$OS[REK^-^'I%5 -----original file------- MH"CF)1?.$4^_13N8_F_159#G4/3SPO,H!GMA((I7O##T+=KW83SU(:H=5+R^ [EMAIL PROTECTED],L#L,[EMAIL PROTECTED]"78A0M:@B-A^([EMAIL PROTECTED]">Z$82E! M.`*K">Z)P`J":A'XEJ!)!#81M(O`5JK<H1$8B=F:&I%K[U$OS[REK^-^'I%5 ------------------------- diff showed 1124 different lines total! I tried to find a cyclical pattern in the number of the corrupted lines, and found that it happens about every 66 lines (not precisely. Sometimes skip 1 and jump 67 instead of 66, or something. My greps might also have cut some of the valid lines, also). Here's the beggining: % diff src.uu ~/m/src.uu | egrep -v "> |< |---" 464c464 530c530 728c728 794c794 860c860 926c926 992c992 1058c1058 1124c1124 1190c1190 1256c1256 1389c1389 1455c1455 1521c1521 1587c1587 1653c1653 1719c1719 1785c1785 (...) Does anyone have any clue why is this happening? TIA! -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]