Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/01/19/18:18:17
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> De: John Cooper [SMTP:John DOT Cooper AT citrix DOT com]
> Date: lundi 18 janvier 1999 11:33
> À: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de
> Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Objet: Re: uudecode?
>
> mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) writes:
>
> > >Can anyone point me to a reliable version of the command line
> > >uudecode.exe/uuencode.exe utilities for NT 4.0?
> >
> > Don't know, what you mean by reliable, but you can get the
> sharutils-4.2c
> > package, which contains uuencode/uudecode among other utilities
>
> These just don't work at all:
>
> $ cp c:/WINNT/NOTEPAD.EXE n.exe
> $ ./n.exe # works fine!
> $ uuencode n.exe n.exe > n.uu
> $ rm n.exe
> $ ls n.*
> n.uu
> $ uudecode n.uu
> $ ls n.*
> n.exe* n.uu
> $ ./n.exe
> zsh: exec format error: .\n.exe
> $
> $ ls -l n.exe
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 JCooper Domain_Users 594 Jan 18 10:37
> n.exe*
> $
>
> Any ideas what's wrong with it?
>
I'm not sure, but I'll bet that you have to sligthly change the
uudecode source code to ensure that the open of the output file is done
in binary mode : open(... O_BINARY) or fopen(..., "wb")). Your problem
is most surely this infamous text!=binary feature :-( of Losedows...
Regards,
Bernard
>
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e-mail: dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com
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