On 03.06.16 10:32, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm on FreeBSD and do compile all from sources (the so called ports > collection). mmencode comes from: > > $ which mmencode > /usr/local/bin/mmencode > $ pkg which /usr/local/bin/mmencode > /usr/local/bin/mmencode was installed by package metamail-2.7_11 > > $ fgrep -A1 MASTER_SITES ports-r414411/*/metamail/Makefile > MASTER_SITES= http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/unix/mail/metamail/ \ > ftp://ftp.research.telcordia.com/pub/nsb/ > > I don't know if this would compile straight forward on your system.
A previous build of the 2.7 version, some years ago, worked fine, but the link I had kept: http://kb.iu.edu/data/data/aibt.html is now a 404, which inclines me to go with Debian's decision to obsolete the package on the basis that it isn't maintained. (Better to invest in remembering replacement utilities with a greater future availability, I think.) Erik (who remembers when uuencode was the go-to decoding utility.)
