Re: New Tramp with uuencode on Windows

[Douglas Gray Stephens]

Kai,

At 14:53 (GMT+0200) on 17-September-2002, Kai Großjohann wrote:
 > Douglas Gray Stephens <address@hidden> writes:
 > 
 > > Thanks.  VM can use the uuencode.exe that comes with the GNU share
 > > file of Unix binaries for Windows, and so is quicker than lisp. I
 > > recall that VM can default to a lisp version for base64 and uuencode,
 > > but obviously this is not as fast.
 > 
 > Okay, I see that I should add support for that to tramp-uu.el.  But
 > as it is an optimization only...
 > 
 > Wait a second.  Tramp tries to run uuencode, too.  See
 > tramp-coding-commands.  So you're saying that Tramp didn't run
 > uuencode in the right way?

No, when I set the tramp-coding-commands as you asked, tramp ran
uuencode prior to base64.

 > How do you run that uuencode under Windows so that it reads standard
 > input and writes standard output?

VM uses uuencode to read from STDIN, but writes to the file specified
in the stream:
  vm-mime-uuencode-decoder-program's value is 
  "uudecode"

  Documentation:
  *Non-nil value should be a string that names UUENCODE decoder.
  If the program is in your executable search path, you need not
  specify a full pathname.  The program should expect to read
  uuencoded data on its standard input and write the converted
  data to the file specified in the ``begin'' line at the start of
  the data.

  You can customize this variable.

  Defined in `vm'.

I guess if one has perl on the Windows box, then one could easily
handle a STDIN/STDOUT uudecode in a faster manner than via lisp.



Douglas.

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