Re: New Tramp with uuencode on Windows

[Douglas Gray Stephens]

Kai,

At 15:46 (GMT+0200) on 17-September-2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
 > Douglas Gray Stephens <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > At 14:53 (GMT+0200) on 17-September-2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > Wait a second.  Tramp tries to run uuencode, too.  See
 > >  > tramp-coding-commands.  So you're saying that Tramp didn't run
 > >  > uuencode in the right way?
 > >
 > > No, when I set the tramp-coding-commands as you asked, tramp ran
 > > uuencode prior to base64.
 > 
 > Ah, silly me.  All uuencode entries use the function for the local
 > encoding.
 > 
 > >  > How do you run that uuencode under Windows so that it reads standard
 > >  > input and writes standard output?
 > >
 > > VM uses uuencode to read from STDIN, but writes to the file specified
 > > in the stream:
 > 
 > That's uudecode, not uuencode.

Sorry, my mis-reading.  

vm does not support sending binary attachments out uuencoded, rather
using base64.

Douglas.

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