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Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII



On Fri, 11 May 2001 18:12:57 -0600
Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@yahoo.com> 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)?

base64, used for email attachments. Or older uuencode.


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