uudecode

NAME

uudecode - Windows command-line utility to decode an encoded file

SYNOPSIS

uudecode [file]

DESCRIPTION

The uudecode(1w) and uuencode(1w) Windows utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission media that support only simple ASCII data.

The uudecode utility decodes back to original format a file that has been encoded using uuencode.

The uudecode utility reads a file or standard input (if no file is specified) that includes data created by the uuencode utility. This utility scans the input file, searching for data compatible with the format specified in uuencode, and attempts to create or overwrite the file described by the data. The path is contained in that data. The permissions for the file are the default when the file is created.

If the path of the file to be produced exists, and the user does not have write permission on that file, uudecode terminates with an error. If the path of the file to be produced does exist, and the user has write permission on that file, the existing file is overwritten.

ARGUMENTS

The uudecode utility supports the following argument:

file: The path of the file containing the output of the uuencode utility.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit-status values are:

0: Successful completion
1: Failure

NOTES

The user who is invoking uudecode must have write permission on any file being created.
The input files must be files containing the output of uuencode.
The output file will be in the same format as the file originally encoded by uuencode.
If the input data was produced by uuencode on a system with a different number of bits per byte than the target system, the results of uudecode are unspecified.