Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread David Barr
"Edward J. Sabol" wrote: Excerpts from [lists.emacs.rcp]: (07-Oct-99) Re: uuencode syntax? by Stefan Monnier I'd say: kill that ugly uu(en|de)code beast and only support base64. I agree. I was never a fan of adding uu*coding or base64 as transfer methods to rcp.e

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Matt Swift
"K" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: K In the worst case, we would need four different methods: Linux K style on both local and remote, BSD style on both, and two K methods for Linux style on one side and BSD style on the other. K Whee... Sounds really bad. The idea

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Edward J. Sabol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excerpts from mail: (08-Oct-99) Re: uuencode syntax? by Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?= Any ideas for a uuencode replacement with awk and od? No, but I think it's fairly simple to write one in Perl. Yes, but perl doesn't come standard with most

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Ian Flanigan
--- David Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I still have problems, because on some machines, my home directory is remotely mounted from one server to machines of multiple architectures. I could have multiple bin directories under my home directory. I would usually handle this by

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
Edward J. Sabol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] (To be honest, I feel that's too many. I'm nostalgic for the old days when rcp.el only supported rcp and scp.) [...] Yes, yes, you're right. I wish I had a dwim command which just worked :-( Or else, maybe a way to try out different

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
David Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] And even if I install it myself, I can't get it to work with rcp.el because of the PATH issue which I described earlier. [...] *blank look* Que? What PATH issue? Doesn't it work to add directories to rcp-remote-path? rcp.el should add them to

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
[[ Mailed copy of news article posted to lists.emacs.rcp ]] "Kai" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm. That's bad. This means that it becomes rather more difficult to use it. On the one hand, the syntax is the same for all uuencode flavors, but on the other hand I have to

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 05:17:10PM +0200, Kai Großjohann wrote: Can you all do "uudecode --version 2/dev/null ; echo $?" and tell me what you see? On Solaris 2.6, I get exit status 2, and I have to use the "-p" thing. On Linux, I get a line saying GNU sharutils and exit status 0, and I

Re: uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread David Barr
Kai Großjohann wrote: It seems that there are at least two versions of uuencode and uudecode floating around, which have incompatible invocation syntax. Encoding on Linux: uuencode foo FILE Decoding on Linux: uudecode -o - FILE Encoding on FreeBSD:uuencode FILE

uuencode syntax?

2000-02-25 Thread Kai Großjohann
It seems that there are at least two versions of uuencode and uudecode floating around, which have incompatible invocation syntax. Encoding on Linux: uuencode foo FILE Decoding on Linux: uudecode -o - FILE Encoding on FreeBSD:uuencode FILE Decoding on FreeBSD:uudecode -p