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mimencode
     
        (Originally distributed as "mmencode").  A replacement for
        {uuencode} for use in {electronic mail} and {news}.  Part of
        {MIME}.  uuencode uses characters that don"t translate well
        across all mail gateways (particularly those which convert
        between {ASCII} and {EBCDIC}).  Also, different variants of
        uuencode encode data in different and incompatible ways, with
        no standard.  Finally, few uuencode variants work well in a
        pipe.  Mimencode implements the encodings which were defined
        for {MIME} as uuencode replacements, and should be
        considerably more robust for e-mail use.  Written by Nathaniel
        S. Borenstein of Bell Communications Research,
        Inc. ({Bellcore}) in 1991.