Re: uuencode manpage
Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:19:00 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs |
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| Organization | UCLA Computer Science Department |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 9/11/21 11:13 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > this behavior is required by POSIX Sorry, I should have written "allowed by POSIX" instead of "required by POSIX", as POSIX allows "-" to be treated as either stdout or a file named "-". Anyway, we don't need to (and shouldn't) change uuencode's implementation, as the usual GNU convention is to treat "-" as stdout in cases like these.