Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 23:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: GNU GNATS <gnats> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: docs/1085: minor inaccuracy in uuencode.format(5) manual page Message-ID: <199603170720.XAA27243@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199603170720.XAA27243@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1085 >Category: docs >Synopsis: minor inaccuracy in uuencode.format(5) manual page >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Mar 16 23:20:03 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Giles Lean >Organization: Giles Lean Nemeton Pty Ltd <giles@nemeton.com.au> phone: +61 3 480 2118 >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: FreeBSD-2.1.0 >Description: The uuencode(5) manual page says that the encoding of the final zero length line is an ASCI space. This is incorrect; a single character ` is used. >How-To-Repeat: Examine the ENC macro in /usr/src/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.c and read the manual page. >Fix: *** uuencode.5.old Sun Mar 17 17:44:09 1996 --- uuencode.5 Sun Mar 17 17:44:37 1996 *************** *** 83,89 **** The body is terminated by a line with a count of zero. This line consists of one .Tn ASCII ! space. .Pp The trailer line consists of .Dq end --- 83,89 ---- The body is terminated by a line with a count of zero. This line consists of one .Tn ASCII ! \` character. .Pp The trailer line consists of .Dq end >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: >Received: from topaz.nemeton.com.au (topaz.nemeton.com.au [203.8.3.18]) by nemeton.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA24189 for <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:57:17 +1100 Received: from topaz.nemeton.com.au (topaz.nemeton.com.au [203.8.3.18]) by nemeton.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA24189 for <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:57:17 +1100 Received: (from giles@localhost) by topaz.nemeton.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA16284; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:53:54 +1100 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:53:54 +1100 From: Giles Lean <giles@topaz.nemeton.com.au> Message-Id: <199603170653.RAA16284@topaz.nemeton.com.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: minor inaccuracy in uuencode.format(5) manual page Reply-To: giles@topaz.nemeton.com.au X-send-pr-version: 3.2 Content-Type: text
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