Where the heck is uuencode?

[Jason Dixon]

On Apr 13, 2004, at 9:22 AM, listhub at libros.andante.mn.org wrote:

> This old man has a need to get some large files off a LAN orphaned 
> machine.
> The machine does not have CD/W capability.
> "No problem", says I, "just use uuencode and split, put it on floppys,
> transfer, join and uudecode".
> So I sits at my Red Hat 8.0 orphaned machine and ...
>
> [root at valencia work]# uuencode vetc.tar.gz
> bash: uuencode: command not found

My RHAS 2.1 server reports it as part of the sharutils package.

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