Ship (encoding)

Ship is a Unix-centric binary-to-text encoding utility and format, intended for use with email. It was developed by Mark Adler. It had some brief popularity in the HP 48 calculator community.

In multi-part mode, it uses the file naming pattern "part0001", "part0002", etc.

Identification
The first line of an encoded file is either "" (default) or "" ("fast" encoding method). The second line starts with either "" (for the first part), or "" (other parts).

Software

 * - Ship 1.0 source code + DOS binary. (Despite this package's filename, it supports both encoding and decoding.)
 * [ ESS-Code v7.5 for DOS]
 * [ ESS-Code v7.8 for 32-bit Windows]
 * → SHIP.C - Ship 1.1 source code

Links

 * comp.sources.hp48 Usenet post, 1993-04-22, with info and source code
 * v09INF1.z - Another copy
 * Item in the HP48 FAQ