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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: uuencode manpage |
| Date: | Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:19:00 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 |
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.
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