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diff --git a/contrib/file/Magdir/uuencode b/contrib/file/Magdir/uuencode new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e88619 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/file/Magdir/uuencode @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ + +#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +# uuencode: file(1) magic for ASCII-encoded files +# + +# GRR: the first line of xxencoded files is identical to that in uuencoded +# files, but the first character in most subsequent lines is 'h' instead of +# 'M'. (xxencoding uses lowercase letters in place of most of uuencode's +# punctuation and survives BITNET gateways better.) If regular expressions +# were supported, this entry could possibly be split into two with +# "begin\040\.\*\012M" or "begin\040\.\*\012h" (where \. and \* are REs). +0 string begin\040 uuencoded or xxencoded text + +# btoa(1) is an alternative to uuencode that requires less space. +0 string xbtoa\ Begin btoa'd text + +# ship(1) is another, much cooler alternative to uuencode. +# Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu +0 string $\012ship ship'd binary text + +# bencode(8) is used to encode compressed news batches (Bnews/Cnews only?) +# Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu +0 string Decode\ the\ following\ with\ bdeco bencoded News text + +# BinHex is the Macintosh ASCII-encoded file format (see also "apple") +# Daniel Quinlan, quinlan@yggdrasil.com +11 string must\ be\ converted\ with\ BinHex BinHex binary text +>41 string x \b, version %.3s + +# GRR: is MIME BASE64 encoding handled somewhere? |
