topic Re: uuencode command in Operating System - HP-UX

uuencode command

matthew mills — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:20:18 GMT

I have a doc on the HPUX 11.00 that I want to send to a user. The doc has ^M ^L characters. when the users opens the doc in Word it shows the characters and is one big doc with no page breaks. I have been trying to use the uuencode to fix this with no luck. This is the command I am using:

uuencode orgemail.doc uuemail.doc >> fixedemail.doc

The fixedemail.doc ends up looking like this:

MM4U1!3D9)3E,@5')A=F5L.B`U5#A(#0I!8V-T(&-L87,Z#0H@16YL('1V;"]P
M9#H@(#(Q-C(P-C`@,3@M,3`T-"!0,D8S,2XS,#`P+3(Q5#(@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@4S0T,3(Q("!41#`@(%`P6$%!#0H@("!34DXZ("!334DT-S4P,C4W
M-3@Y*B`@2D].+T-#0SH@-50X2#,X+S,X-50X2"`@0V]S="!%
Thanks in advance! ITRC ROCKS!

Re: uuencode command

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:24:40 GMT

You can use uuencode as an attachement to the mail. Here is the syntex

uuencode | sendmail emailid
Ex:
uuencode /etc/passwd password.hostname | sendmail username@yourdomain.com

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Re: uuencode command

TwoProc — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:28:45 GMT

You've got two different issues:
A) cr/lf
B) how to uuencode and mail - this has already answered in the previous posting.

Your cr/lf issues can be fixed by using the ux2dos command.

$ ux2dos originalfile > fixedfile

Re: uuencode command

matthew mills — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:30:19 GMT

I tried it and the result is ok. The doc is readable. but the page break is just showing an "^L".

Re: uuencode command

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:31:51 GMT

This script actually works.

Its a copy of a production script that does file attachments very nicely.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

SEP

Re: uuencode command

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:33:20 GMT

I just remembered something. When I was developing the script I just posted there was a problem. Turns out the smtp gateway server needed a bug fix upgrade. It was thrashing the attachments.

If my script does not work, talk to the administrator if you are running this mail through any kind of a gateway type server.

SEP

Re: uuencode command

matthew mills — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:38:01 GMT