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author | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-02-18 17:08:27 +0000 |
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committer | wosch <wosch@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-02-18 17:08:27 +0000 |
commit | c4a7bc52220b2be10075dea390d51ec98cb350ac (patch) | |
tree | 90a1d0659d7a9e22a037e9b06380673db5fb9455 /usr.bin | |
parent | a3ce262583a2f61248ebc44f44cc01fdee22183d (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-c4a7bc52220b2be10075dea390d51ec98cb350ac.zip FreeBSD-src-c4a7bc52220b2be10075dea390d51ec98cb350ac.tar.gz |
Fix ranges - off by one.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.format.5 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.format.5 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.format.5 index 1b1ed73..c2a89e1 100644 --- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.format.5 +++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.format.5 @@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ followed by a newline. The character count is a single printing character, and represents an integer, the number of bytes the rest of the line represents. -Such integers are always in the range from 0 to 63 and can +Such integers are always in the range from 1 to 45 or 64 and can be determined by subtracting the character space (octal 40) from the character. +Character 64 represents a count of zero. .Pp Groups of 3 bytes are stored in 4 characters, 6 bits per character. -All are offset by a space to make the characters printing. +All characters are always in range from 1 to 64 and are offset by a +space (octal 40) to make the characters printing. Character +64 represents a count of zero. The last line may be shorter than the normal 45 bytes. If the size is not a multiple of 3, this fact can be determined by the value of the count on the last line. |