Ship (encoding)

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Name Ship (encoding)
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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.

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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).

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