Re: Small Perl job for Tramp: base64 encoding/decoding

[Steve Kemp]

On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 06:45:39PM +0200, Kai  Großjohann wrote:

> Tramp looks whether Perl is present on the remote host.  If so, it
> might use that Perl for base64 encoding/decoding.  There is also some
> Perl code in tramp.el which is supposed to implement the operations,
> but the Perl code is said to be buggy.
> 
> Is anyone volunteering to write new Perl code to do the job?
> 
> I need two commands which read from stdin and write to stdout.  One
> command encodes, the other decodes.

  There's a uudecode sample included in all the modern distributions of
 Perl.  On my Debian GNU/Linux system it's located in:

        /usr/share/doc/perl/examples/uudecode

Steve
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