This should look familiar to you now. It's the orignal name of the file. It's also the name that comes after the begin statement. Other Things to Consider The GroupWise electronic mail package will automatically uuencode and uudecode files sent as attachments to non GroupWise electronic mail packages. For example if I send the nsfnet.gif to Dr. Smith as a GroupWise attachment, he will receive it as a uuencoded message.
Uuencoded files can be very large.
They take up a lot of disk space and bandwidth. Make sure you tell the person to whom you plan on sending a large uuencoded file before you send the file. DO NOT send uuencoded files to electronic mailing lists. Most people on the mailing list will not know what to do with them.