Hey there.

uuencode works like this:
  uuencode <file-name-in-archive> [<file-to-be-archived>]

Thanks, I worked that out. I was just confused by the example command line as given by 'man uuencode' which reads:

tar cf - src_tree | compress |
           uuencode src_tree.tar.Z | mail sys1!sys2!user

My mistake, sorry!

Nick.