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| author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
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| committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000 |
| commit | ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 9eb4b7d718b67229ee4b8e61e9cad466a5a36945 /usr.bin/uuencode | |
| parent | e2acd5cecf61f060255d467b8d38cd35f941fb1c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7.zip FreeBSD-src-ad8a79e6a5c75acf360e9310860387b68066c0b7.tar.gz | |
Use `The .Nm utility'
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/uuencode')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 | 20 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 index ab1f328..c254ec2 100644 --- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 +++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 @@ -53,16 +53,18 @@ .Fl o Ar output_file .Op Ar file .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Uuencode +The +.Nm and .Nm uudecode -are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums +utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums that do not support other than simple .Tn ASCII data. .Pp -.Nm Uuencode -reads +The +.Nm +utility reads .Ar file (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output, or @@ -76,8 +78,9 @@ mode of the file and the operand for use by .Nm uudecode . .Pp -.Nm Uudecode -transforms +The +.Nm uudecode +utility transforms .Em uuencoded files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form. The resulting file is named either @@ -87,8 +90,9 @@ or (depending on options passed to .Ar output_file and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid and execute bits are not retained. -.Nm Uudecode -ignores any leading and trailing lines. +The +.Nm uudecode +utility ignores any leading and trailing lines. .Pp The following options are available for .Nm : |
