[olug] email a binary file (uuencode no longer popular?)

[Scott Jones]

On Friday 17 August 2007, Jay Hannah wrote:

> base64 isn't on this machine either...
>
> Hmm... My favorite tools aren't in default installs anymore. Apparently
> I'm a fossil. (32 tomorrow. ack! somebody put me down!)

Weird.  uude/encode and base64 are part of the GNU sharutils and coreutils, 
respectively.  No idea whether they are part of a default installation in 
openSUSE, since I normally forgo what has been preselected for me and choose 
everything I know I need.