Xxencoding
From Just Solve the File Format Problem
Xxencoding (xxencode, xxdecode) is a way to encode binary data as plain text. Except that the encoded data uses a different set of symbols, it is identical or nearly identical to uuencoding.
Format
The header line starts with "begin", followed by a Unix file permission code and a filename.
Each line of data begins with a character indicating the line length. Since lines have a standard length, all lines except the last one begin with "h".
It's not necessarily easy to distinguish xxencoded data from uuencoded data in a completely reliable way.
Software
- XX_CODE.ZIP - C source, and MS-DOS binaries
- XXENCODE.C, XXDECODE.C
