Mimencode

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.