From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steve Kemp Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Small Perl job for Tramp: base64 encoding/decoding Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:59:40 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020727175939.A18103@tardis.ed.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027789199 8673 127.0.0.1 (27 Jul 2002 16:59:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17YUv8-0002Fm-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:59:58 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17YVBU-0002ZX-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:16:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YUvO-0005FL-00; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:00:14 -0400 Original-Received: from master.tardis.ed.ac.uk ([193.62.81.6]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17YUuu-0005ET-00 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk (davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk [193.62.81.4]) by master.tardis.ed.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA962F823; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:59:38 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: by davros.tardis.ed.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 16012) id CC846C149; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:59:40 +0100 (BST) Original-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kai__Gro=DFjohann?= Mail-Followup-To: Steve Kemp , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kai__Gro=DFjohann?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE on Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 06:45:39PM +0200 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6082 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6082 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 --- www.steve.org.uk