Xxencoding - Revision history

Jsummers at 12:41, 20 November 2015

2015-11-20T12:41:50Z

Jsummers: Change category to Transfer Encodings

2014-08-24T22:49:26Z

Change category to Transfer Encodings

Jsummers: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums }} '''Xxencoding''' (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. It is very si..."

2014-05-12T22:58:54Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums }} '''Xxencoding''' (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. It is very si..."

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'''Xxencoding''' (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. It is very similar to [[uuencoding]], but with an alphabet of 64 symbols, instead of 32.

== Format ==
The header line starts with "<code>begin</code>", 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 "<code>h</code>".

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

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Xxencoding|Wikipedia article]]

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-'''Xxencoding''' (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. It is very similar to [[uuencoding]], but with an alphabet of 64 symbols, instead of 32.
+'''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]].
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 It's not necessarily easy to distinguish xxencoded data from uuencoded data in a completely reliable way.
 == Links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:Xxencoding|Wikipedia article]]