>> Note perl has the ability to uudecode and encode builtin (perldoc -f >> pack or unpack and look at the u option.) As perl is an essential >> package, by using it you can save yourself a needless dependency. > > Ah, that's great. Can you give a short usage example - I would then > prepare a patch for the developer's reference.
Maybe something like (in one line) perl -0777 -e '<> =~ m{^begin[^\n]*\n(.*?\n)`\nend\n}sm or exit(1); print unpack("u", $1)' < infile.uu > outfile To feed some prejudices about perl ;-) Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]