Re: [PATCH] uudecode doesn't work on files with DOS line endings

[Bruce Korb]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> uuencode /bin/sh /bin/sh | sed 's/$/foobar/' | uudecode -o sh
>
> POSIX says that the input to uudecode is not in uuencode format, so
> uudecode shouldn't find anything.  That is, the program should behave
> just as this one does:
>
> uuencode /bin/sh /bin/sh | sed 's/^/foobar/' | uudecode -o sh

The practical issue is what to do when these shar archives get emailed
and saved using some MUA that thinks all lines should end with \r\n.
We could try to get Microsoft to change its ways, but I'd rather
just make it simple and ignore the \r.

The aardvark would just say that spurious '\r' characters that are
immediately followed by '\n' may (optionally) be ignored by the
uudecode utility.

Cheers - Bruce