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authordholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>2008-11-29 22:42:53 +0000
committerdholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>2008-11-29 22:42:53 +0000
commit6a8d114c5f35140f2daa6879d6123b76b75dc136 (patch)
treead1ffb6d35df39a84e0a803bc35a919801e675e5 /usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
parent2ef1dd5f7ada0e3b380247a02aeb0e169b213493 (diff)
Modernize and expand example. Bump date.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
index 69b73cf6774..4b0b5463a8f 100644
--- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
+++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.1,v 1.17 2008/11/29 22:36:13 dholland Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.1,v 1.18 2008/11/29 22:42:53 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)uuencode.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd September 24, 2006
+.Dd November 29, 2008
.Dt UUENCODE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -95,15 +95,20 @@ utilities exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it,
uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system.
-When
-.Nm uudecode
-is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be
-created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original
-tree.
.Pp
.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
-tar cf \- src_tree \&| compress \&|
-uuencode src_tree.tar.Z \&| mail sys1!sys2!user
+tar czf \- src_tree \&| uuencode src_tree.tgz \&| mail user@example.com
+.Ed
+.Pp
+On the other system, if the user saves the mail to the file
+.Pa temp ,
+the following example creates the file
+.Pa src_tree.tgz
+and extracts it to make a copy of the original tree.
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent -compact
+uudecode temp
+tar xzf src_tree.tgz
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr compress 1 ,