Uuencoding Standard
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A Uuencoding Standard is a Binary-To-Text Encoding Standard that originated from the uucp mail system.
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- See: Binary-To-Text Encoding, Unix, Code, Binary Numeral System, Uucp, Character Set, E-Mail, Usenet, MIME, YEnc, Base64.
References
2013
- (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uuencoding Retrieved:2013-12-19.
- Uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix program uuencode, for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system.
The name "uuencoding" is derived from "Unix-to-Unix encoding". Since uucp converted characters between various computers' character sets, uuencode was used to convert the data to fairly common characters that were unlikely to be "translated" and thereby destroy the file. The program uudecode reverses the effect of uuencode, recreating the original binary file exactly. uuencode/decode became popular for sending binary files by e-mail and posting to usenet newsgroups, etc.
It has now been largely replaced by MIME and yEnc. With MIME, files that might have been uuencoded are transferred with base64 encoding.
- Uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix program uuencode, for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system.