DN459557313

Subject: Re: MIME encoding - DN [1]

vitus@wagner.rinet.ru (Victor Wagner) - 27 Mar 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Frank J. Leitner <tcl@fjl.de> wrote:
 : Rob Convery wrote:
 :>
 :> I am developing a MIME compliant email program for X windows. I am
 :> having problems writing an encoder. Does anyone know / have a tcl script
 :> that will encode data in anything that can handle all unprintable
 :> character ( i.e. work with .jpg's etc)

 : I'd guess you are looking for a base-64 encoder. I've done one some
 : time ago (only found C implementations like mmencode, but needed
 : a pure TCL version). Works at least on Unix, TCL 8.0.X :-)

 : # base64_encode --

 It is nice to have base64 encoder in pure tcl, but its a pity that Tk
 already have base64 encoder/decoder built-in (for photo images, which
 can use base64-encoded gifs as data). It is written on C and quite
 efficient, but, unfortunately, unaccessible from script level.
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