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Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII



On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:12:57PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> My dad started a new project at work, which they will be using Linux for.  He
> came to me and asked me if Linux had a program to convert a binary stream to
> ASCII characters.  A co-worker of his told him that UNIX had a native utility
> to do this (but he couldn't recall the name).  What might this be (or what is
> a program that could do this)?

uuencode?

[eb@socrates eb]$ head -c 100 /dev/urandom | uuencode -
begin 644 -
M[6=K,:NQ0,H]RNY8JD7Q$*-S^(0\D$(/AC7JNF/$N\YG2F22=IWBRB5BF,DQ
M!AY4H%3HI7GAR/F2$'O=0"J8),>`T!``X"WP`-*Q6V6:@/E<MUX0A8M^FF(7
*\CF=!=G10;T-C0``
`
end
[eb@socrates eb]$


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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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