Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: UUDECODE problem?
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 91 15:42:35 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.154235.26264@mks.com>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
References: <4657@mindlink.UUCP>

In article <4657@mindlink.UUCP> Richard_Parson@mindlink.UUCP (Richard Parson) writes:
>Some UUENCODEd files seem to be corrupted by losing any spaces at the end of a
>line. Spaces in the middle of a line are ok.
>
>Does anyone have (MSDOS) software that will recover these files by adding space
>characters to the end of any line shorter than 60 characters in length?

How about the following (if you have sed, awk, perl or something similar):
	
	# add some spaces to the end of every line
	sed 's/$/         /' file.uue | uudecode

or	awk '{ print $0 "        " }' file.uue | uudecode
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