[olug] email a binary file (uuencode no longer popular?)

[Noel Leistad]

Jay,

God of Perl that I know you are, I'm certain that you can easily morph 
"bad ole bash"  into  functional "perl-speak"...

Surely.......


:-)

Jay Hannah wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Noel Leistad wrote:
>> never tried the uuencode thing, found this script which I sort of hacked
>> w/ vars to suit... $1 who, $2 what
> 
> Thanks for that. Un(?)fortunately I'm legally and morally obligated to
> use Perl instead of shell scripts.  :)
> 
> I just saw the "Grep Sed Question" thread from June... Stan Coleman: If
> you still need Perly help you could post to our mailing list:
> 
>     Omaha Perl Mongers: http://omaha.pm.org
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Brian Roberson wrote:
>> If you have mutt:
>> mutt -a file.pdf jay at jays.net < /dev/null
> 
> Ahh, thanks. mutt does happen to be on this box. Anyone else notice the
> slow disappearance of default installs of pine? Am I the only uuencode +
> pine user left? So alone...   -whimper-
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Sam Tetherow wrote:
>> I think yydecode has replaced uudecode at least in the usenet world. The
>> "crazy kids" use the little paperclip button nowadays ;)
> 
> Huh. yydecode isn't on this box by default.
> 
> I don't know why PuTTY doesn't let me click a paperclip when I'm ssh'd
> into a random Linux machine somewhere.   :(       -grin-
> 
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Luke -Jr wrote:
>> base64 file.pdf | ... should work
> 
> base64 isn't on this machine either...
> 
> Hmm... My favorite tools aren't in default installs anymore. Apparently
> I'm a fossil. (32 tomorrow. ack! somebody put me down!)
> 
> j
> 
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