Ship (encoding)

File Format
Name	Ship (encoding)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Transfer Encodings Ship (encoding)
Released	1991

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.

In multi-part mode, it uses the file naming pattern "part0001", "part0002", etc.

Identification

The first line of an encoded file is either "$" (default) or "$ f" ("fast" encoding method). The second line starts with either "ship " (for the first part), or "cont " (other parts).

Software

• UNSHIP.ZIP - Ship 1.0 source code + DOS binary. (Despite this package's filename, it supports both encoding and decoding.)
• ESS-Code v7.5 for DOS
• ESS-Code v7.8 for 32-bit Windows

Links

• comp.sources.hp48 Usenet post, 1993-04-22, with info and source code
  • v09INF1.z - Another copy
• Item in the HP48 FAQ