>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:19:42 -0700
>From: Nick Loman <nick@csosl.co.uk>

>Probably my mistake but there appears to be an error in the uuencode
>man pages.
>
>I tried: uuencode a.file | mail an.address
>
>And it never returned!

uuencode reads from standard input if given a single argument.  It
may look like a hang, but really it's waiting for you to type
something.

The quickest way I've found to confirm this is to type ^D (EOF) when
it looks like a program has hung; if it's reading from standard input
it will see the EOF and terminate.
-- 
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