+uudeview (0.5.19+beta20030413-1) unstable; urgency=low
...
+  * Use rename() in preference to copy if possible.
+    (closes: Bug#166040)
...
+ -- Chris Hanson <cph@debian.org>  Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:05:07 -0400

Index: uudeview-0.5.20/uulib/uulib.c
===================================================================
--- uudeview-0.5.20.orig/uulib/uulib.c
+++ uudeview-0.5.20/uulib/uulib.c
@@ -872,7 +872,10 @@ UUDecodeToTemp (uulist *thefile)
 }
 
 /*
- * decode file first to temp file, then copy it to a final location
+ * Decode file first to temp file, then copy it to a final location.
+ * A move is preferable to a copy.  If the file is on the same
+ * partition, no copy is performed.  This is important for large
+ * files.
  */
 
 int UUEXPORT
@@ -978,6 +981,12 @@ UUDecodeFile (uulist *thefile, char *des
     return UURET_IOERR;
   }
 
+  if (rename(thefile->binfile, uugen_fnbuffer) == 0) {
+    fclose(source);
+    close(fildes);
+    goto finish_ok;
+  }
+
   if ((target = fdopen (fildes, "wb")) == NULL) {
     progress.action = 0;
     UUMessage (uulib_id, __LINE__, UUMSG_ERROR,
@@ -1042,6 +1051,8 @@ UUDecodeFile (uulist *thefile, char *des
 	       thefile->binfile,
 	       strerror (uu_errno = errno));
   }
+
+ finish_ok:
   _FP_free (thefile->binfile);
   thefile->binfile = NULL;
   thefile->state  &= ~UUFILE_TMPFILE;
@@ -1103,9 +1114,9 @@ UUInfoFile (uulist *thefile, void *opaqu
 
   while (!feof (inpfile) && 
 	 (uu_fast_scanning || ftell(inpfile) < maxpos)) {
-    if (_FP_fgets (uugen_inbuffer, 511, inpfile) == NULL)
+    if (_FP_fgets (uugen_inbuffer, 1023, inpfile) == NULL)
       break;
-    uugen_inbuffer[511] = '\0';
+    uugen_inbuffer[1023] = '\0';
 
     if (ferror (inpfile))
       break;