Bencode (Quinton/Lalonde)
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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.
[edit] Disambiguation
This Bencode is not related to the Bencode associated with BitTorrent.
[edit] Identification
Files made by known versions of the software begin with the ASCII message "Decode the following with bdecode".
[edit] Software
- bncdbdcd.tar
- Slackware 4.0: source/n/cnews/ → Various files, e.g. c-news.tar.gz → bencode.c, bdecode.c
