[Category Package] An extension based upon the principle of stacked channels. Provides several conversions, hash algorithms and other transformations. For example [Base64 encoding and decoding], zlib/bzlib compression, SHA, MD5, etc. Thus well-suited to handle [mime]-Mail. An add-on, Trfcrypt, provides [Encryption and Decryption] facilities. The homepage of this package is http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/soft/trf/ Author is [Andreas Kupries]. See [Extensions for Tcl and Tk] for many more interesting extensions to Tcl.