btoa-5.2.1p0
encode/decode binary to printable ASCII
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Description
This is a port of btoa version 5.2, written by Paul Rutter, Joe
Orost & Stefan Parmark. btoa converts 4 binary characters to 5
ascii ones, causing a 25% expansion. (btoa is thus more efficient
than uuencode, which causes a 33% expansion.) Spaces will not be
used, which should make it safe to send files over e-mail or Usenet
without risking that blanks become tabs. Each resulting row of
text has a single-byte checksum for error detection. A diagnosis
file provides a list of errors found this way, which could then be
used to retransmit only the failing lines.
Package information
- Ports path
- converters/btoa
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
- Categories
- converters
- Available flavors
- None listed
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Direct dependencies
None listed in sqlports.