Xxencoding

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File Format
Name Xxencoding
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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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