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diff --git a/converters/base64/DESCR b/converters/base64/DESCR index 44a7efaadf6..1bbaf8a673c 100644 --- a/converters/base64/DESCR +++ b/converters/base64/DESCR @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ 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. +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. +processing system. |