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                     20: .TH UUENCODE 1 "%Q"
                     21: .UC 4
                     22: .SH NAME
                     23: uuencode, uudecode \- encode/decode a binary file
                     24: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     25: .B uuencode
                     26: [ file ] name
                     27: .br
                     28: .B uudecode
                     29: [ file ... ]
                     30: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     31: .I Uuencode
                     32: and
                     33: .I uudecode
                     34: are used to transmit binary files over transmission mediums
                     35: that do not support other than simple ASCII data.
                     36: .PP
                     37: .I Uuencode
                     38: reads
                     39: .I file
                     40: (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version
                     41: to the standard output.
                     42: The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters and includes the
                     43: mode of the file and the operand
                     44: .I name
                     45: for use by
                     46: .IR uudecode .
                     47: .PP
                     48: .I Uudecode
                     49: transforms
                     50: .I uuencoded
                     51: files (or by default, the standard input) into the original form.
                     52: The resulting file is named
                     53: .IR name
                     54: and will have the mode of the original file except that setuid
                     55: and execute bits are not retained.
                     56: .I Uudecode
                     57: ignores any leading and trailing lines.
                     58: .SH EXAMPLES
                     59: The following example packages up a source tree, compresses it,
                     60: uuencodes it and mails it to a user on another system.
                     61: When
                     62: .I uudecode
                     63: is run on the target system, the file ``src_tree.tar.Z'' will be
                     64: created which may then be uncompressed and extracted into the original
                     65: tree.
                     66: .sp
                     67: .in +5
                     68: tar cf - src_tree | compress | uuencode src_tree.tar.Z | mail sys1!sys2!user
                     69: .sp
                     70: .SH SEE ALSO
                     71: compress(1), mail(1), uucp(1), uuencode.format(5)
                     72: .SH BUGS
                     73: The encoded form of the file is expanded by 35% (3 bytes become 4 plus
                     74: control information).

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