minix man page for uue

UUE(1)							      General Commands Manual							    UUE(1)

NAME
       uue, uuencode - encode a binary file to ASCII (e.g., for mailing)

SYNOPSIS
       uue [-n] file [-]

OPTIONS
       -n     How many lines to put in each file

EXAMPLES
       uue file 	   # Encode file to file.uue

       uue file - >x	   # Encode file and write on stdout

       uue -800 file	   # Output on file.uaa, file.uab etc.

DESCRIPTION
       Uuencode is a famous program that converts an arbitrary (usually binary) file to an encoding using only 64 ASCII characters.  Uudecode con-
       verts it back to the original file.  The uue and uud programs are the MINIX versions of these programs, and are compatible  with  the  UNIX
       ones.   The  files  produced  can even be sent successfully over BITNET, which is notorious for mangling files.	It is possible to have uue
       automatically split the encoded file up into small chunks.  The output files then get the suffixes .uaa, .uab, etc., instead of .uue.  When
       uud is given file.uaa to decode, it automatically includes the subsequent pieces.  The encoding takes 3 bytes (24 bits) from the input file
       and renders it as 4 bytes in the output file.

SEE ALSO
       btoa(1), uud(1).

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