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Could any 1 send me the details for uuencode and decode . I am working on something which was coded by some1 else using these two commands .

I am having a a pwd file with password in the encrypted form as
y\215G\216!A\231Ò.:¹...

they use a key file which decrpt that pwd file ....key file is having the contents as

begin 664 /mdf/mdftst/utl/tool/etc/.key.uu
&;F]K97D*

end

I would like to know how this thing is working to decrpt that file ..

Something new for me ...

I am workign on SUN solaris 5.8

Thanks

It is not encrypted, it is encoded. That is, binary data has been converted into ascii. To recreate the binary, just use uudecode. It's not like you need password or anything.

The algorithm is complex, but you don't need to know that. gzip/gunzip have complex algorithms too, but they are very easy to use.

Thanks Perderabo...

Oops it was encoding .. thanks again