uuencoding
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uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix programs uuencode and uudecode written by Mary Ann Horton at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980, for encoding binary data for transmission in email systems.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- binary-to-text encoding
- Developer
- Mary Ann Horton
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- file extension
- uu
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/uuencode
- media type
- text/x-uuencode
- inception
- 1980-00-00
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