YEnc
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'''yEnc''' is a transfer encoding used for attaching files to Usenet newsgroup messages (and, rarely, e-mail and other kinds of messages). It is a more size-efficient alternative to [[Uuencoding]]. | '''yEnc''' is a transfer encoding used for attaching files to Usenet newsgroup messages (and, rarely, e-mail and other kinds of messages). It is a more size-efficient alternative to [[Uuencoding]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:07, 19 April 2015
yEnc is a transfer encoding used for attaching files to Usenet newsgroup messages (and, rarely, e-mail and other kinds of messages). It is a more size-efficient alternative to Uuencoding.
It is justly characterized as "quick and dirty", requiring crude Uuencoding-style heuristics to detect it, instead of utilizing the robust-but-complex MIME standard that predates it.
Specifications
yEncode - A quick and dirty encoding for binaries v1.2 (.txt file)
Identification
A yEnc-encoded file is delimited by lines that begin with "=ybegin" and "=yend".
