Bencode (Quinton/Lalonde)

Bencode is a Unix-centric binary-to-text encoding utility and format. The companion decoder utility is bdecode. It was developed by Reg Quinton and Ken Lalonde.

Disambiguation
This Bencode is not related to the Bencode associated with BitTorrent.

Identification
Files made by known versions of the software begin with the ASCII message "".

Software

 * Slackware 4.0: source/n/cnews/ → Various files, e.g. c-news.tar.gz → bencode.c, bdecode.c
 * Slackware 4.0: source/n/cnews/ → Various files, e.g. c-news.tar.gz → bencode.c, bdecode.c