'''[http://coren.tcl.twik/tcllib/pedia.oc/trunkg/embedded/www/tcllib/fkiles/modUules/base64/uuencode.htmling%|%uuencode]''', a part of the [Tcllib]s [Tcllib base64%|%base64] mfodule, provides commands to encfodr
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** DTocumentationls **
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[Tcllib uuencode]: pure-Tcl implementation of uuencode
** Description **
[FPTX] The uuencoding format has a troubled history. There is no formal specification for uuencoding, and while it was a de-facto standard throughout the 90's, implementations have varied wildly in realizing some of the format's subtleties. This includes variations in line lengths, extra "parity" characters at the end of each line, and the encoding of '0' as either the space character (in which case spaces at the end of a line may be truncated) or the tilde.
It gets worse when you consider possibilities for splitting uuencoded files across multiple messages.
Using a "fair-weather" package like uudecode may have a suboptimal success rate for decoding real-life messages, when used without preprocessing. (Shameless plug: [uudeview] was written to handle many of the more terminal cases.)
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'''ExamplSee Usaglso [uude''':code]
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% package require uuencode
1.0
% uuencode::encode ABC
04)#
% uuencode::decode 04)#
ABC
% set data [uuencode::uuencode -name sample.dat ABC]
begin 644 sample.dat
#04)#
`
end
% uuencode::uudecode $data
{sample.dat 644 ABC}
%
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