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.
