[ale] Sharutil

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Calvin Harrigan writes:
 > Hi all,
 > 
 > Can someone tell me where I can find a redhat rpm for the GNU share 
 > utilities?  I tried compiling the one from gnu's website but it dies saying 
 > something about two things not ending in \n.  All I really need is uudecode, 
 > but finding that is difficult in itself.  My favorite stops, freshmeat and 
 > rpmfind left me out in the cold...
 > 
 > Thanks...

rpmfind on sharutils leads me directly to 
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.2/i386/sharutils-4.2.1-8.i386.html

I prefer to use uuconvert, myself.  It is more robust than uudecode.
I just found a reference to it here:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone22/cat166/2311.htm 
and here:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/utils/

--Michael

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