Re: uuencode manpage

[Davide Brini]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:38:15 -0700, Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is not exactly a response to the issue because I cannot figure out
> what the issue actually is. This email reads like there should be an
> antecedent email, but I cannot find it.
>
> Anyway, output goes to stdout, period, full stop. What you provide as
> the final argument to the command is the name encoded into the output
> file that gets "printed" to stdout. Attached is the POSIX description
> for the final argument to uuencode.
>
> Does that answer your question?

I think what the OP meant is that in the text of the man page, "-"
could be used in place of "/dev/stdout" since it works the same and it's
shorter.

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D.