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- mimencode - Translate to and from mail-oriented encoding
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- (Same program also installed as "mmencode".)
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- mmmmiiiimmmmeeeennnnccccooooddddeeee[-u] [-b] [-q] [-p] [file name]
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- The _m_i_m_e_n_c_o_d_e program simply converts a byte stream into (or
- out of) one of the standard mail encoding formats defined by
- MIME, the proposed standard for internet multimedia mail
- formats. Such an encoding is necessary because binary data
- cannot be sent through the mail. The encodings understood
- by mimencode are preferable to the use of the
- uuencode/uudecode programs, for use in mail, in several
- respects that were important to the authors of MIME.
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- By default, mimencode reads standard input, and sends a
- "base64" encoded version of the input to standard output.
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- The (really not necessary) "-b" option tells mimencode to
- use the "base64" encoding.
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- The "-q" option tells mimencode to use the "quoted-
- printable" encoding instead of base64.
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- The "-u" option tells mimencode to _d_e_c_o_d_e the standard input
- rather than encode it.
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- The "-p" option tells mimencode to translate decoded CRLF
- sequences into the local newline convention during decoding
- and to do the reverse during encoding. This option is only
- meaningful when -b (base64 encoding) is in effect.
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- If a file name argument is given, input is read from that
- file rather than from standard input.
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- _M_i_m_e_n_c_o_d_e is intended to be a replacement for _u_u_e_n_c_o_d_e for
- mail and news use. The reason is simple: uuencode doesn't
- work very well in a number of circumstances and ways. In
- particular, uuencode uses characters that don't translate
- well across all mail gateways (particularly ASCII <-> EBCDIC
- gateways). Also, uuencode is not standard -- there are
- several variants floating around, encoding and decoding
- things in different and incompatible ways, with no
- "standard" on which to base an implementation. Finally,
- uuencode does not generally work well in a pipe, although
- some variants have been modified to do so. Mimencode
- implements the encodings which were defined for MIME as
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- uuencode replacements, and should be considerably more
- robust for email use.
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- metamail(1), mailto(1)
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- This program was originally distributed as "mmencode". That
- name turns out to conflict with a program of the same name
- that is part of the Slate software from BBN, but totally
- changing the name to mimencode would create other problems
- (notably with portability to systems where the left half of
- file names is limited to 8 characters). Currently, it is
- being distributed with links under BOTH names. The programs
- in the distribution that call the program all call it as
- "mimencode", so the "mmencode" version may be deleted at
- sites where it causes a problem. (The source files are
- still named "mmencode" rather than "mimencode".)
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- Copyright (c) 1991 Bell Communications Research, Inc.
- (Bellcore)
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- material without the specific, prior written permission of
- an authorized representative of Bellcore. BELLCORE MAKES NO
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- Nathaniel S. Borenstein
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