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hannob / uudeview

Decoder and encoder for Base64 (MIME), uuencoded, xxencoded and Binhex files.
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                           UUDEVIEW FOR UNIX
                             Version 0.5.20

 Welcome to UUDeview, a package of a very smart decoder and an
 encoder for Base64 (MIME), uuencoded, xxencoded and Binhex files.   
 Its ultimate goal is to fully replace the "standard", but dumb
 uudecode and uuencode utilities.

Introduction

If you're into emailing and reading news, you have already learned how difficult it is to distribute or receive binary files by this means. You will have noticed that you must frequently edit files before decoding them, and make sure they're in the right order. Here's a tool to free you of these permanent bothers. The package features a smart decoder, UUDeview, which allows for comfortable decoding of about anything you feed into it. It reads in a bunch of files, sorts the individual postings or emails and lets you choose which files to decode. You will also find the equally helpful UUEnview, which not only encodes binaries for sending, but automatically sends them, too.

The decoder supports the four encoding methods uuencoding, xxencoding, Base64 (from the MIME standard) and BinHex, the encoder can encode to all of them except to BinHex. When encoding, you can choose the method with a command-line option, and the decoder auto-detects all of them.

The frontend programs are built around a powerful decoding library, which can be easily integrated into other applications as well. You can find LaTeX documentation in the doc/ subdirectory, Postscript and HTML-formatted files can be requested from the author (email only).

For more information, check out the UUDeview homepage on the WWW at http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/

Also read ...

INSTALL Installation Manual. Describes in detail how to configure and install the package.

COPYING UUDeview is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (GPL).

Credits

This piece of software wouldn't be what it is today without the help, encouragement, suggestions and bugreports from a number of people. I especially want to thank Michael Newcomb, Nico Mak, Stephane Barizien, Kris Karas and Joachim Meyn for their support. My apologies to the people I forgot to mention.

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          Frank Pilhofer <fp@fpx.de>