Where the heck is uuencode?

[Chris Purcell]

> This old man has a need to get some large files off a LAN orphaned
> machine.  The machine does not have CD/W capability.
> "No problem", says I, "just use uuencode and split, put it on floppys,
> transfer, join and uudecode".
> So I sits at my Red Hat 8.0 orphaned machine and ...
>
> [root at valencia work]# uuencode vetc.tar.gz
> bash: uuencode: command not found
>
> "No way", says I, so ... i do
>
> [root at valencia work]# find / -name uuencode -print
>
> thinking that uuencode might not be on the default path.  NADA.
>
> I know Red Hat is changing the distribution to meet its commercial "sell
> support" outlook but something this basic???
>
> So ... is this in some RPM that is not installed default that has
> uuencode/uudecode?
> Is there some new utility to take binaries to split files and rejoin
> after transfer on floppys?


Can you do this with split and cat?  Use split to split the file into
multiple smaller files, and to put it back together you put all the
smaller files into the same directory and do a "cat * > somefile".

Chris