UUDecode

When I double-click on the !UUDecode icon nothing happens on my Pandaboard or ARMX6, not even an iconbar icon. I remember on a previous RISC OS computer (Iyonix or RiscPC?) a window appeared for one to drag the base64 file to for decoding. According to Packman I have the up-to-date version of !UUDecode.

UUDecode on Packman is simply an alias to a command line tool. There is no iconbar icon.

*uuencode -h
Usage: RAM::RamDisc0.$.UUEncode_4/2/1-0.Apps.File.!UUEncode.uuencode [INFILE] REMOTEFILE

  -h, --help      display this help and exit
  -m, --base64    use base64 encoding as of RFC1521
  -v, --version   output version information and exit
*uudecode -h
Usage: RAM::RamDisc0.$.UUDecode_4/2/1-0.Apps.File.!UUDecode.uudecode [FILE]...
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory to short options too.
  -h, --help               display this help and exit
  -v, --version            output version information and exit
  -o, --output-file=FILE   direct output to FILE
*

With the same name iconbar apps can be found here in b144.zip

Whether any of it still works is another matter.

Just make your life easier and use SparkFS to uuencode and uudecode. And Base64/MIME en- and decoding of course.

Also, I’d name drop John Allen’s “Attacher”. I used this just the other day to help someone with Thunderbird who couldn’t open an attachment that had been managled by a server during transit. It’s a very good program, and scans files for UU or Base64 data, without being too picky on formatting etc.

http://www.johnallen.com/soft/attacher.html

To quote from my own post:

I remember on a previous RISC OS computer (Iyonix or RiscPC?) a window appeared for one to drag the base64 file to for decoding.

This was Attacher which I have now installed on my ARMX6 and Pandaboard. It works. Thanks for people`s interest.

I frequently use John’s excellent ‘Attacher’ and have just got round to emailing John a feature request:
Could the default file name for extracted files increment please?
base64-01, base64-02, base64-03 etc.

Any other requests/problems?

johnallen.com isn’t responding, unless I have a dodgy connection…does anyone know of another source or send me a copy of Attacher?

thanks

The latest archive on that site: https://web.archive.org/web/20211028154946/http://www.johnallen.com/software/attach.zip

And here for info: https://web.archive.org/web/20210505133200/http://www.johnallen.com/soft/attacher.html

Thanks Rick 🙂