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1.1       root        1: .TH UUENCODE 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: uuencode, uudecode \- encode/decode a binary file for
                      4: transmission via mail
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B uuencode
                      7: [
                      8: .I file
                      9: ]
                     10: .I remotedest
                     11: .br
                     12: .B uudecode
                     13: [
                     14: .I file 
                     15: ]
                     16: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     17: These routines are useful for sending binary files by
                     18: .IR mail (1).
                     19: .PP
                     20: .I Uuencode
                     21: places on the standard output an encoded version of the named
                     22: .I file
                     23: (standard input by default).
                     24: The encoding, which uses only printing ASCII characters,
                     25: includes the mode of the file and a name 
                     26: .I remotedest
                     27: into which it will be decoded.
                     28: .PP
                     29: .I Uudecode
                     30: reads encoded data from a
                     31: .I file
                     32: or from the standard input and recreates the
                     33: original data with the mode and name given in the file.
                     34: As the encoded file is ordinary text, the name or
                     35: mode can be changed by editing.
                     36: .PP
                     37: An encoded file contains noise lines, a header line, data,
                     38: trailer, and more noise in that order.
                     39: The header contains
                     40: .LR begin ,
                     41: the octal mode, and the remote name separated by spaces.
                     42: Each data line contains a count in the range 0-63, encoded
                     43: as a single byte with value offset by 040 (space), followed
                     44: by the encoding of that many bytes of source.
                     45: 24-bit (3-byte) segments of source are
                     46: coded in 4 6-bit pieces, again represented in
                     47: offset-040 code.
                     48: The trailer is a data line with count 0 and then
                     49: the line
                     50: .LR end .
                     51: .B SEE ALSO
                     52: .IR uucp (1),
                     53: .IR mail (1)
                     54: .SH BUGS
                     55: The interface is meretricious.
                     56: The remote name should be decided by
                     57: the recipient, not the sender.
                     58: The command
                     59: .L uuencode myfile
                     60: does not encode
                     61: .L myfile ,
                     62: but rather reads from standard input.

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