From: dbe AT wgn DOT net ($Bill Luebkert)
Subject: Re: uudecode?
21 Jan 1999 13:59:47 -0800
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To: Mark Newnham <mark DOT n AT usa DOT net>
Cc: "'John Cooper'" <John DOT Cooper AT citrix DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Mark Newnham wrote:
> 
> The problem appears to be with the uuencode portion, because a file
> encoded on a different system will uudecode correctly with the source
> supplied.
> 
> If you compare a file encoded with the source code, against the same
> file encoded on a Unix system, although the files are the same size,
> each line on the Unix encoded file starts with a 'M' (or possibly the
> 'M' is after the newline on the previous. This does not appear with the
> source code version.

This is due to a bug on this line:
   outbuf[idx++] = ENC(ch);		# ch is not active at this time
which I changed to:
   outbuf[idx++] = ENC(n);		# n is the number of chars read

I'll send my version to John.

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