UUDEVIEW FOR UNIX
Version 0.5.20
Welcome to UUDeview, a package of a very smart decoder and an
encoder for Base64 (MIME), uuencoded, xxencoded and Binhex files.
Its ultimate goal is to fully replace the "standard", but dumb
uudecode and uuencode utilities.
Introduction
If you're into emailing and reading news, you have already learned how
difficult it is to distribute or receive binary files by this means.
You will have noticed that you must frequently edit files before
decoding them, and make sure they're in the right order. Here's a tool
to free you of these permanent bothers. The package features a smart
decoder, UUDeview, which allows for comfortable decoding of about
anything you feed into it. It reads in a bunch of files, sorts the
individual postings or emails and lets you choose which files to
decode. You will also find the equally helpful UUEnview, which not
only encodes binaries for sending, but automatically sends them, too.
The decoder supports the four encoding methods uuencoding, xxencoding,
Base64 (from the MIME standard) and BinHex, the encoder can encode to
all of them except to BinHex. When encoding, you can choose the method
with a command-line option, and the decoder auto-detects all of them.
The frontend programs are built around a powerful decoding library,
which can be easily integrated into other applications as well. You
can find LaTeX documentation in the doc/ subdirectory, Postscript
and HTML-formatted files can be requested from the author (email
only).
For more information, check out the UUDeview homepage on the WWW at
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
Also read ...
INSTALL Installation Manual. Describes in detail how to
configure and install the package.
COPYING UUDeview is distributed under the terms of the
GNU Library General Public License (GPL).
Credits
This piece of software wouldn't be what it is today without the help,
encouragement, suggestions and bugreports from a number of people. I
especially want to thank Michael Newcomb, Nico Mak, Stephane Barizien,
Kris Karas and Joachim Meyn for their support.
My apologies to the people I forgot to mention.
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Frank Pilhofer <fp@fpx.de>
