[CVALE] Base 64 Utility

[Terry]

Hi Pete,

You're right.

In fact just before I sent the email response I pulled down the coreutils 6.9 and installed them in 
a separate directory.  The base64 program worked well.  I should have mentioned it in my email.

Thanks guys.

Terry



Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 19:07:35 -0700, Terry <terry at zinnianet.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I guess I need to update my 20 month old install.  :-)
> 
> 
> Surely you don't need to update the whole thing? Just get the newer
> coreutils, unpack into a chroot, copy the base64 into /usr/local/bin.
> That's one way. Another is to find metamail.
> 
> 
>>Terry
>>(Maybe I should move to Gentoo.  Right Eric?)
> 
> 
> Fedora would work too. It typically allows to grap ultramodern
> packages from Rawhide or whatever and retrofit them into older systems.
> 
> -- Pete
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