Ship (encoding) - Revision history

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Jsummers at 13:57, 3 September 2022

2022-09-03T13:57:59Z

Jsummers: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Transfer Encodings }} '''Ship''' is a Unix-centric binary-to-text encoding utility and format. No authoritative information about i..."

2022-08-29T15:51:45Z

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'''Ship''' is a Unix-centric binary-to-text encoding utility and format. No authoritative information about it has been located.

It may use the file naming pattern "part0001", "part0002", etc.

== Identification ==
(Based on minimal research.) The first line of an encoded file is "<code>$</code>". The second line starts with either "{{magic|ship }}" (first part), or "{{magic|cont }}" (other parts).

== Software ==
* [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd75dos.zip}} ESS-Code v7.5 for DOS]
* [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd78w95.zip}} ESS-Code v7.8 for 32-bit Windows]

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 == Identification ==
-(Based on minimal research.) The first line of an encoded file is "<code>$</code>". The second line starts with either "{{magic|ship&nbsp;}}" (first part), or "{{magic|cont&nbsp;}}" (other parts).
+The first line of an encoded file is either "{{magic|$}}" (default) or "{{magic|$&nbsp;f}}" ("fast" encoding method). The second line starts with either "{{magic|ship&nbsp;}}" (for the first part), or "{{magic|cont&nbsp;}}" (other parts).
 == Software ==

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 * [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd75dos.zip}} ESS-Code v7.5 for DOS]
 * [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd78w95.zip}} ESS-Code v7.8 for 32-bit Windows]
 == Links ==

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-'''Ship''' is a Unix-centric binary-to-text encoding utility and format. No authoritative information about it has been located.
+'''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.
-It may use the file naming pattern "part0001", "part0002", etc.
+In multi-part mode, it uses the file naming pattern "part0001", "part0002", etc.
 == Identification ==
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 == Software ==
 * [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd75dos.zip}} ESS-Code v7.5 for DOS]
 * [{{SACFTPURL|utilfile|ecd78w95.zip}} ESS-Code v7.8 for 32-bit Windows]