uuencode help

[David M. Cook]

On 04 Sep 2001 11:29:25 +0200, Martin von Loewis
<loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

>Can you give an example? I was not able to reproduce any problems
>involving spaces and backticks.

A python script to generate a uuencoded file:

  import uu
  import os

  filename = "/usr/games/chromium/data/png/chrome.jpg"
  infile = open(filename, "r")
  outfile = open("/tmp/chrome.uu", "w")
  uu.encode(infile, outfile, os.path.basename(filename), 0644)

The commandline using the uuencode utility:

uuencode /usr/games/chromium/data/png/chrome.jpg chrome.jpg > chrome.uuencode

If you have the unix cmp utility, it will show the differences and which
byte they are at:

cmp -l chrome.uu chrome.uuencode

    28  40 140
    29  40 140
    37  40 140
    39  40 140
    42  40 140
    44  40 140
			
etc.  

This is on a Red Hat 7.1 system with python 1.5.2.

Dave Cook