Hey there I have been happily using brag for months now. I have been happily decoding uuencoded and yencencoded messages throughout that entire time. I have just discovered recently that I am not decoding mimencoded messages at all. The default line for mimencoding in the decoders file is:
mm:mimencode -u -o $file
I have mimencode on my system at /usr/bin/mimencode
The version of mimencode that I have, as near as I can tell, is:
AUTHOR Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Bellcore Prototype Release 1
If I try to issue the same command manually:
mimencode -u -o junk.mim.02
I get a frozen cursor, and when I break out my junk.mim.02 file has been modified:
Before running the mimencode command on the file:
170311 Bytes Dec 12 13:08 junk.mim.02
After running the mimencode command on the file:
0 Bytes Dec 12 13:50 junk.mim.02
so instead of decoding the file, like the -u command tells mimencode to do, it is overwriting the filename that I wish to decode. What I assume should happen if I have the switches correct, is that mimencode should be able to decode a standard input (file) and decode it according to the filename in the encoded file, or is this asking too much? Am I using the wrong version of mimencode? I haven't been able to find any other versions of this program either.
Help!
Chris
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Hey there I have been happily using brag for months now. I have been happily decoding uuencoded and yencencoded messages throughout that entire time. I have just discovered recently that I am not decoding mimencoded messages at all. The default line for mimencoding in the decoders file is:
mm:mimencode -u -o $file
I have mimencode on my system at /usr/bin/mimencode
The version of mimencode that I have, as near as I can tell, is:
AUTHOR Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Bellcore Prototype Release 1
If I try to issue the same command manually:
mimencode -u -o junk.mim.02
I get a frozen cursor, and when I break out my junk.mim.02 file has been modified:
Before running the mimencode command on the file:
170311 Bytes Dec 12 13:08 junk.mim.02
After running the mimencode command on the file:
0 Bytes Dec 12 13:50 junk.mim.02
so instead of decoding the file, like the -u command tells mimencode to do, it is overwriting the filename that I wish to decode. What I assume should happen if I have the switches correct, is that mimencode should be able to decode a standard input (file) and decode it according to the filename in the encoded file, or is this asking too much? Am I using the wrong version of mimencode? I haven't been able to find any other versions of this program either.
Help!
Chris