Re: What is Base64?

[sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk (Soenke Behrens)]

Terry.Mcdanel@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry McDanel) wrote:

>What is the Unix command to decompress it?

Uh ... dunno. Use elm or pine? ;-).

>Is there Apple software that addresses it?

Not that I know of.

>Is it new or old?  Coming into use or disappearing?

Not really new, but definitely not old. It's used extensively by MIME, the
up-and-coming multimedia email standard (at least it's planned as that).
Many mailers support MIME, among them, as I said, elm and pine.

>For anyone who knows, thanks, terry.

Hope I could provide some answers instead of just raising more questions.

Soenke

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