Re: recovering from a failure to decode

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:59:48AM -0500, John E. Davis wrote:
> Brian Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was downloading some uuencoded articles and these were successfully
> > saved to a file we'll call alt.binaries.pictures.fractals.  However, the
> > decoding process for those articles failed due to a lack of disk space.
> > I've resolved the disk space issue but would prefer not to redownload
> > the articles.  How can I decode the articles in
> > alt.binaries.pictures.fractals?
> 
> If you have access to the slrn sources, you can build the standalone
> decoder:
> 
>    cd /path/to/slrn/src
>    make uudecode
>    mv ./uudecode $HOME/bin/slrndecode
>    rehash
>    cd /path/to/alt.binaries.pictures.fractals
>    slrndecode files....

Come to find out the packaged version of slrn I am using is linked with
uudeview, so after installing uudeview I was able to decode the file
using it.  Using uudecode from the slrn source I only received the
message:

No more files found.

--
Brian

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everyone hates slow websites. So do we.
Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics
Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:
http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov