Re: Aging Dependencies?

Dear Ken Hornstein,

In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
>
> It looks like the issues are: either mmencode needs a home, or we need to
> switch exmh to a package that is more recent than the first Clinton
> administration.
> 
> It occurs to me that mmencode could have a home in nmh (well, I guess exmh
> uses "mimencode", but same thing really).  Although I see exmh can use
> recode if available.  Maybe this is a non-problem?

Eventually the attached script is sufficient?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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#!/bin/sh

# Synopsis:
#	mimencode [-u] [-b] [-q] [file name]
#
# -u : decode rather than encode
# -b : use "base64" encoding (default)
# -q : use "quoted-printable" encoding

# Default: encode to base64
ENCODE="../base64"
DECODE="/base64.."

ACTION="encode"

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
	case "$1" in
	-u)	ACTION="decode"
		shift
		;;
	-b)	ENCODE="../base64"
		DECODE="/base64.."
		shift
		;;
	-q)	ENCODE="../qp"
		DECODE="/qp.."
		shift
		;;
	--)	shift
		break
		;;
	*)	break
		;;
	esac
done

if [ ${ACTION} = "encode" ]
then
	CONVERT="${ENCODE}"
else
	CONVERT="${DECODE}"
fi

cat "$@" | recode -f -q "${CONVERT}"