Xxencoding

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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.
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'''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]].
  
 
== Format ==
 
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It's not necessarily easy to distinguish xxencoded data from uuencoded data in a completely reliable way.
 
It's not necessarily easy to distinguish xxencoded data from uuencoded data in a completely reliable way.
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== Software ==
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* [http://www.pcorner.com/list/COMM/XX_CODE.ZIP/INFO/ XX_CODE.ZIP] - C source, and MS-DOS binaries
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* [http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk2/00_START/XXENCODE.C XXENCODE.C], [http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel9703/disk2/00_START/XXDECODE.C XXDECODE.C]
  
 
== Links ==
 
== Links ==
 
* [[Wikipedia:Xxencoding|Wikipedia article]]
 
* [[Wikipedia:Xxencoding|Wikipedia article]]

Latest revision as of 12:41, 20 November 2015

File Format
Name Xxencoding
Ontology
Extension(s) .xxe

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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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 "h".

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

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