file/magdir/uuencode

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   2 #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   3 # uuencode:  file(1) magic for ASCII-encoded files
   4 #
   5
   6 # GRR:  the first line of xxencoded files is identical to that in uuencoded
   7 # files, but the first character in most subsequent lines is 'h' instead of
   8 # 'M'.  (xxencoding uses lowercase letters in place of most of uuencode's
   9 # punctuation and survives BITNET gateways better.)  If regular expressions
  10 # were supported, this entry could possibly be split into two with
  11 # "begin\040\.\*\012M" or "begin\040\.\*\012h" (where \. and \* are REs).
  12 0       string          begin\040       uuencoded or xxencoded text
  13
  14 # btoa(1) is an alternative to uuencode that requires less space.
  15 0       string          xbtoa\ Begin    btoa'd text
  16
  17 # ship(1) is another, much cooler alternative to uuencode.
  18 # Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu
  19 0       string          $\012ship       ship'd binary text
  20
  21 # bencode(8) is used to encode compressed news batches (Bnews/Cnews only?)
  22 # Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu
  23 0       string  Decode\ the\ following\ with\ bdeco     bencoded News text
  24
  25 # BinHex is the Macintosh ASCII-encoded file format (see also "apple")
  26 # Daniel Quinlan, quinlan@yggdrasil.com
  27 11      string  must\ be\ converted\ with\ BinHex       BinHex binary text
  28 >41     string  x                                       \b, version %.3s
  29
  30 # GRR:  is MIME BASE64 encoding handled somewhere?