Re: base64 decoder

[campbelb@agcs.com (Brian Campbell)]

In article <1325773926-970313082500@rook.wa.com>,
   brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack) wrote:
> Adalbert spewed forth:
>
> BYE(| There is a base64.shk for MIME files which works for the PCT
>     | only. Would be nice , if somebody could modify this for the
>
>Checked that out, and yeah, it's just a PC-brand MIME program and some
>similar files, which anyone could have gotten from a PC BBS.

I've also written a DOS command line
MIME decoder for the PC, but I doubt this it.
I have not put it into circulation.

> -- Norman Dodge has written up a shell MIME utility in C, and sent me
>the EXE and SRC files today.  (And they came out corrupted so don't
>bother asking me to pass them along.)  Luck for the GNO & ORCA users.
>
> -- Tom Larson is working on adding MIME/Base64 to the BSC-It encoder/
>decoder he's been writing, and I hold beta-5 right now which he says is
>a precursor to the release version (put out a Binscii-only version 1.0
>right now, then future releases will have more encoding schemes in it).

If anyone wants my C source for the decoder, I might be persuaded to
release it.

>Anyone with info on uuencoding and BinHex (and Base64's CRC?!) kindly
>pass that along to Tom at ericlob@cris.com if ya will...

I also have a command line uudecode program that works on the Apple II.
It is a utility in the Proton Command Shell, which was available via
a Web page that is now defunct.  Will at a new site soon, I hope.
More on that later.  Could be persuaded to pump out a base64 version
for the Apple II, with some arm twisting perhaps.


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