mimencode

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.