mimencode
(Originally distributed as "mmencode"). A replacement for uuencode for use in
electronic mail and news. Part of MIME. uuencode uses characters that don"t
translate well across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert
between ASCII and EBCDIC). Also, different variants of uuencode encode data in
different and incompatible ways, with no standard. Finally, few uuencode
variants work well in a pipe. Mimencode implements the encodings which were
defined for MIME as uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more
robust for e-mail use. Written by Nathaniel S. Borenstein of Bell Communications
Research, Inc. (Bellcore) in 1991.
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