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diff --git a/converters/btoa/pkg-descr b/converters/btoa/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9eb8e97bfc72 --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/btoa/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +This is a port of btoa version 5.2, written by Paul Rutter, Joe +Orost & Stefan Parmark. btoa converts 4 binary characters to 5 +ascii ones, causing a 25% expansion. (btoa is thus more efficient +than uuencode, which causes a 33% expansion.) Spaces will not be +used, which should make it safe to send files over e-mail or Usenet +without risking that blanks become tabs. Each resulting row of +text has a single-byte checksum for error detection. A diagnosis +file provides a list of errors found this way, which could then be +used to retransmit only the failing lines. + +Port to FreeBSD 2.1 by +Brent J. Nordquist (nordquist@platinum.com) +Fri Apr 5 23:20:58 1996 |