Bencode (Quinton/Lalonde)

File Format
Name	Bencode (Quinton/Lalonde)
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Transfer Encodings Bencode (Quinton/Lalonde)
Released	≤1989

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.

Disambiguation

This Bencode is not related to the Bencode associated with BitTorrent.

Identification

Files made by known versions of the software begin with the ASCII message "Decode the following with bdecode".

Software

• bncdbdcd.tar
• Slackware 4.0: source/n/cnews/ → Various files, e.g. c-news.tar.gz → bencode.c, bdecode.c