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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-20 12:18:28 +0000
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Use `The .Nm utility'
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=95124
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diff --git a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1 b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
index ab1f328f8f09..c254ec215a5e 100644
--- a/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
+++ b/usr.bin/uuencode/uuencode.1
@@ -53,16 +53,18 @@
.Fl o Ar output_file
.Op Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-.Nm Uuencode
+The
+.Nm
and
.Nm uudecode
-are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums
+utilities are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums
that do not support other than simple
.Tn ASCII
data.
.Pp
-.Nm Uuencode
-reads
+The
+.Nm
+utility reads
.Ar file
(or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version
to the standard output, or
@@ -76,8 +78,9 @@ mode of the file and the operand
for use by
.Nm uudecode .
.Pp
-.Nm Uudecode
-transforms
+The
+.Nm uudecode
+utility transforms
.Em uuencoded
files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form.
The resulting file is named either
@@ -87,8 +90,9 @@ or (depending on options passed to
.Ar output_file
and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid
and execute bits are not retained.
-.Nm Uudecode
-ignores any leading and trailing lines.
+The
+.Nm uudecode
+utility ignores any leading and trailing lines.
.Pp
The following options are available for
.Nm :