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Uuencoding

A document actually describing uuencoding as a standard does not seem to exist. This is probably the reason why there are so many broken encoders and decoders around that each take their liberties with the definition.

The following text describe the pretty strict rules for uuencoding that are used in the UUEnview encoding engine. The UUDeview decoding engine is much more relaxed, according to the general rule that you should be strict in all that you generate, but liberal in the data that your receive.

Uuencoded data always starts with a begin line and continues until the end line. Encoded data starts on the line following the begin. Immediately before the end line, there must be a single empty line (see below).

begin mode filename
... encoded data ...
``empty'' line
end



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2002-04-14