README
1This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable
2encoder/decoder. These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 -
3MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).
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5The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of
6octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character
7subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be
8represented per printable character.
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10The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that
11largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in
12the ASCII character set. Each non-printable character is represented by
13a triplet consisting of the character "=" followed by two hexadecimal
14digits.
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16In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
175.6 or better. Installation as usual:
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19 perl Makefile.PL
20 make
21 make test
22 make install
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24Copyright 1995-1999,2001-2004 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
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26This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
27modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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