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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/44339: uudecode example does not work
Message-ID:  <200210212030.g9LKU2GG005076@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/44339; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To: Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/44339: uudecode example does not work
Date: 21 Oct 2002 16:24:37 -0400

 Slaven Rezic <eserte@vran.herceg.de> writes:
 
 > >Description:
 > 	The last example from the uudecode documentation does not
 > 	work.
 > 	
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > 	The original example is:
 > 	
 >            uudecode -o /dev/stdout < $MAIL | zcat | tar xfv -
 > 
 > 	I tried and got:
 > 
 > $ uudecode -o /dev/stdout < uue | zcat | tar txv -
 > uudecode: /dev/stdout: stdin: Invalid argument
 > 
 > zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
 > tar: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options.
 > Exit 1
 > 
 > 	where uue is:
 > 
 > begin 660 bla.tar.gz
 > M'XL(`&8GM#T``^W2/4_#,!`&X,S^%4=`:I$:ZO0K4@V9&,N&Q,*2-">PVL:1
 > M[2BM$/\=-Y01!J2JR_LL/M_9ULGVQ&_NFFUT5JF4BX6DB"C-YOT8_(S!3$Z(
 > MLOE\EDVSQ33$J<Q2&9$\;UO?6N<+2Q2Q8^OY]W7=._.9[^D2KJ_&K;/C4M?C
 > MANV6DDZTCLEYJ]=>]?'S1HG=@6ZZE!["9+E\*G3]HNO*=$E><W>J3OZL3D,U
 > MK$GRE7:^-'LE0B[)=7V\]J$<4>S9^?CVE&^*]>84AM:JX>#^T;3EEI,T'XS(
 > MM25]B./7Z8^LPDYK#JK/5)HI9FN-I1T[5[SQ:QTK\1E._NEN94RC!.^U)ZG$
 > @I5\```````````````````````#@?[X`(0R4BP`H````
 > `
 > 
 
 Your input file is bogus (it has no end flag, for one thing), and you
 are passing an invalid set of flags to tar(1) as well (I suspect you
 wanted tfv, not txv).  Could you try coming up with a syntactically
 correct example that demonstrates the problem you are actually
 trying to report?  

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