uuencode

NAME

uuencode - Windows command-line utility to encode a given binary file

SYNOPSIS

uuencode [file] decodePathname

DESCRIPTION

The uuencode(1w) Windows utility writes an encoded version of the named input file (or standard input if no file is specified).

The file is expanded by 35 percent (each three octets become four, plus control information), causing it to take a longer time to transmit.

The output from uuencode is a text file on the local system. The encoding algorithm is described in terms of eight-bit quantities, or octets. Because no byte alignment is implied, it encodes data from machines with any number of bits per byte. Unless that encoded data is decoded on a computer with the same number of bits per byte, however, the output might not be useful.

ARGUMENTS

The uuencode utility supports the following argument:

decodePathname

The path of the file into which uuencode places the decoded file. If there are characters in decodePathname that are not in the portable file name character set, the results are unspecified.

file

The path of the file to be encoded.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit-status values are:

0

Successful completion

1

Failure

SEE ALSO

uudecode(1w)