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Document today's changes to uudecode: 

* Add "-o outfile" option.  This is required by POSIX.1-2008.
* Recognise "/dev/stdout" as a magic filename, both when embedded in the
  data stream and when specified via "-o".  This is also required by
  POSIX.1-2008.
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.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.1,v 1.21 2009/03/10 19:54:43 joerg Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: uuencode.1,v 1.22 2013/01/28 16:08:02 apb Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)uuencode.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
.Dd November 30, 2008
.Dd January 28, 2012
.Dt UUENCODE 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
.Op Ar inputfile
.Ar outputname
.Nm uudecode
.Op Fl m | Fl p
.Op Fl m
.Op Fl p | Fl o Ar outputfile
.Op Ar encoded-file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
@ -57,6 +58,25 @@ The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl m"
.It Fl m
Use base64 encoding.
The default is that
.Nm
uses the historical uuencode algorithm,
and
.Nm uudecode
automatically detects the encoding.
.It Fl o Ar outputname
.Po Nm uudecode No only . Pc
Use the specified
.Ar outputname
as the name of the output file.
The default is that
.Nm uudecode
obtains the name of the output file from the data stream, where
.Nm
would have recorded it.
.It Fl p
.Po Nm uudecode No only . Pc
Write the decoded file to stdout instead of to a named file.
.El
.Pp
.Nm
@ -79,11 +99,17 @@ files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form.
The resulting file is named
.Ar outputname
as recorded in the encoded file,
or as specified by the
.Fl o
option,
and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid
and execute bits are not retained; if the
and execute bits are not retained.
If the
.Fl p
option is specified, the data will be written to the standard output
instead.
option is specified, or if the output file name is given as
.Pa /dev/stdout ,
then the data will be written to the standard output
instead of to a named file.
.Nm uudecode
ignores any leading and trailing lines.
.Sh EXIT STATUS
@ -122,7 +148,7 @@ The
and
.Nm
utilities conform to
.St -p1003.2-92 .
.St -p1003.1-2008 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm uudecode