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diff --git a/converters/base64/DESCR b/converters/base64/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..44a7efaadf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/base64/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + The MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) specification (RFC 1341 +and successors) defines a mechanism for encoding arbitrary binary information +for transmission by electronic mail. Triplets of 8-bit octets are encoded as +groups of four characters, each representing 6 bits of the source 24 bits. +Only characters present in all variants of ASCII and EBCDIC are used, avoiding +incompatibilities in other forms of encoding such as uuencode/uudecode. + + base64 is a command line utility which encodes and decodes files in this +format. It can be used within a pipeline as an encoding or decoding filter, +and is most commonly used in this manner as part of an automated mail +processing system. |