Uuencoding
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Revision as of 22:47, 24 August 2014
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 "begin", 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 "M".
Software
- GNU sharutils:
uuencode,uudecode
