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Jim DeVore says: Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
Great episode. I especially enjoyed shar and remembering all the issues I once had with attachments. I still have them at times, but that is generally due to security forbidding executable file types...
Vance says: Thanks, and Solaris
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I appreciate the positive comments!
Regarding Solaris (and SunOS and AIX), I don't recall exactly how I determined that uuencode wasn't included with the base OS. Probably a set of man pages online somewhere. Of course, it would be easy to compile and install uuencode from source and I'm sure it happened frequently. Similarly, it was common for GNU versions of some utilities to be installed by people using commercial UNIX systems because they often had additional capabilities.
More episodes are coming; hope you enjoy them!
xmanmonk says: uuencode/uudecode on Solaris
RE: hpr4587::2026-03-03 UNIX Curio #1 - Shell Archives by Vance00:12:08 Listen in ogg, opus, or mp3 format.
I worked for the infamous Inference Corporation years ago when they still existed, and the corporate server ran Solaris (I don't recall which versions were running when I was there). That server had uuencode and uudecode on it. It may not have been installed with the OS, but it was there. Someone put it there. So I know it at least ran on Solaris, which wouldn't require much more than a compilation of the sources.
Anyway, great show! Thanks so much!
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