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uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text
encoding that
originated in the Unix
programs uuencode and
uudecode written by Mary Ann
Horton at the University...
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little as 1–2%,
compared to 33–40%
overhead for 6-bit
encoding methods like
uuencode and Base64. yEnc was
initially developed by Jürgen Helbing, and its first...
- dial-up
communication between systems running the same OS – for example,
uuencode for UNIX and
BinHex for the TRS-80 (later
adapted for the Macintosh) –...
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xxencode is a binary-to-text
encoding similar to
uuencode which uses only the
alphanumeric characters, and the plus and
minus signs. It was
invented as...
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Network Unix-to-Unix, as in
uuencode, a data
transport encoding .uu, a
compressed archive file extension, ****ociated with
uuencode Ulster University in Northern...
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accomplished in 1980 by
manually encoding 8-bit
files using Mary Ann Horton's
uuencode, and
later using BinHex or
xxencode and
pasting the
resulting text into...
- original, ****uming
eight bits per
ASCII character), it is more
efficient than
uuencode or Base64,
which use four
characters to
represent three bytes of data (1⁄3...
- to
uuencode and
uudecode files, however, the
application functionality grew to
translate uLaw
encoded files to AIFF format,
segment large uuencoded files...
- and in
specifying shar smartness. For example, shar may
compress files,
uuencode binary files,
split long
files and
construct multi-part mailings, ensure...
- the UUCP name of the
local system). Some
versions of the
suite include uuencode/uudecode (convert 8-bit
binary files to 7-bit text
format and vice versa)...
