Re: What solaris apps convert text to/from base 64?

lvirden_at_gmail.com
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: 23 Jul 2004 12:36:53 GMT

According to Juhan Leemet <juhan@logicognosis.com>:
:On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:25:04 +0000, lvirden wrote:
:> It looks to me as if dtmail attachments are encoded in base64.
:> I've a user who is looking to do something similar within their
:> own application. Is there an executable that comes with Solaris
:> to encode (and decode) files into base 64?
:
:I used to use something called mpack. It doesn't explicitly say so, but I
:believe it would pack/unpack to/from base 64.

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. As I mentioned elsewhere in this
thread, uudeview/uuenview appears in /opt/sfw/bin - that was the closest
to something 'out of the box'.

I know that things could be written in Perl. However, those things would then
need to be debugged, maintained, documented, etc. and the person asking me
about this just wanted to use something off the machine without having to
deal with developing yet another encoder/decoder.

Someone above asked about using uuencode. Alas, the data is japanese characters
being sent through email and need to be base64 to be compatible with the
subsequent email readers, which are expecting base64.

Thanks again all! 

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