Xxencoding

Xxencoding (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. Except that the encoded data uses a different set of symbols, it is identical or nearly identical to uuencoding.

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 " ".

It's not necessarily easy to distinguish xxencoded data from uuencoded data in a completely reliable way.

Software

 * XX_CODE.ZIP - C source, and MS-DOS binaries
 * XXENCODE.C, XXDECODE.C

Links

 * Wikipedia article