Uuencoding

Uuencoding is a way to encode binary data as plain text, suitable for inclusion in an e-mail message or Usenet message.

Format
The header line starts with " ", followed by a Unix file permission code and a filename.

Each line of data begins with a character indicating the line length. Since lines have a standard length, all lines except the last one begin with " ".

Software

 * GNU sharutils

Links

 * Wikipedia article