Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.news Subject: Re: Binary posting shell script posted to net.sources Message-ID: <241@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 17:20:10 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.241 Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:20:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 02:18:30 EDT References: <3085@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 6 I wasn't aware of the blank eating problem for uuencode. However, there's an easy fix, and it doesn't require adding X's to the end or breaking compatibility with existing uudecodes. Just output the ` character instead of blanks. uudecode is only interested in the lower 6 bits of the characters anyway, so ` looks just like blank.