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.