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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject: Re: bin/42356: uudecode -o doesn't work if piped
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The following reply was made to PR bin/42356; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: fuyuki@hadaly.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/42356: uudecode -o doesn't work if piped
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 10:55:51 +0100

 Kimura Fuyuki <fuyuki@hadaly.org> wrote:
 >	
 >uudecode -o doesn't work if the output is piped to other programs.
 >	
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > $ uudecode -o /tmp/a.tgz </tmp/a.uue
 > $ tar tvzf /tmp/a.tgz
 > drwxr-xr-x user/user         0 Nov 13 13:10 2001 dir/
 > -rw-r--r-- user/user         3 Nov 13 13:10 2001 dir/file
 > drwxr-xr-x user/user         0 Nov 13 13:10 2001 dir/RCS/
 > -r--r--r-- user/user       307 Nov 13 13:10 2001 dir/RCS/file,v
 > $ uudecode -o /dev/stdout </tmp/a.uue | tar xvzf -
 > uudecode: /dev/stdout: stdin: Invalid argument
 > 
 > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
 > tar: child returned status 1
 
 I think this is a documentation bug, rather than a bug in uudecode itself.
 The manual page should suggest the -p option rather than -o /dev/stdout.
 (or perhaps failure to chmod should not be fatal)
 
 Would fixing the manual page satisfy you?
 
 Tony.
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