Jack Coats wrote:
I thought I remembered a unix utility that would convert a binary file
to a text file in 'hex' format, typically to allow emailing a binary.
And the corresponding decoding utility to re-build the binary from the text.
I can't seem to remember the commands or at least
does it have to be hex (mac format??)?
uudeview is a neat tool that can also do this but has a lot of extra
features that can be quite handy:
http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/
you may even be able to 'apt-get install uudeview' to install it.
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That is what I was trying to remember, uuencode/uudecode ... Thanks
Needed to add ubuntu package sharutils
... Jack
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Doug Smith w...@earthlink.net wrote:
Jack Coats wrote:
I thought I remembered a unix utility that would convert a binary file
to a text
