>>> [uuencoded tarball]
>>>> ===8<=== CUT ===>8===
>>>>> M%YN(W#<*N>\LU22\?(GC-*PX+:/[CGA._6&.>4T>]1#&PA<AIG0I@)5?-8V<
>>>>> =M=]<7^MK?:VO];6^UM?Z6E]_Y/4O"<%%3@!0````
>>>>> `
>>>>> end
>>>>> --cut here-->8--------------
>>>> Obvious comment: What's all that junk for? I would presume it's
>>>> some sort of encrypted version of your file system, but I've no
>>>> means of handling it so can't do anything with it...
>>> You're kidding, aren't you?
>> Nope. I originally assumed it was uuencoded, but uudecode says
>> otherwise...
> Works here.
I've now double-checked this, grabbing a copy off one of the list
archives and comparing it against the one I received. For some reason,
the copy that arrived at my mailbox had the 16th character of every
line with its LSB inverted !!!
Anybody any ideas what might cause that?
>> Also, what's the point of using uuencode nowadays? All it does
>> is bloat the filesize unnecessarily, thus increasing the
>> download costs associated with it...
> This sounded unlikely to me, so I sent two messages to myself.
> The first contained virtfs.tar.gz uuencoded + my .sig. The
> second had a message containing only my .sig with virtfs.tar.gz
> as a MIME attachment.
> condor:~/mail/main$ ls -l test?
> -rw------- 1 tr tr 6365 Jul 26 16:46 test1
> -rw------- 1 tr tr 6912 Jul 26 16:45 test2
> condor:~/mail/main$
> i.e. on small files like this one, MIME produces larger mails
> than uuencode.
I stand corrected in this case. Sorry.
Best wishes from Riley.
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