MEWENCODE

NAME

mewencode, mewdecode, mewcat - MIME encoder/decoder

mewencode [-options] [infile [outfile]]

mewdecode [-options] [infile [outfile]]

mewcat [-options] [infile]

The mewencode utility encode/decode MIME objects.

The options are as follows:

-e: Encoding.
-d: Decoding.
-8: See if any 8bit characters are contained.
-b: MIME base64 en/decoding.
-q: MIME quoted-printable en/decoding.
-g: MIME gzip64 en/decoding(not yet specified in RFC).
-z: The same as -g.
-u: Uudecoding.
-l length: Line length into which base64/quoted-printable/gzip64 encoding truncate.
-t: On base64/gzip64 encoding, local newline is treated as CRLF. On base/gzip64 decoding, any newline is translated into local newline. Specify this option only when the input is a line based object(e.g. Content-Type: is text/plain or application/postscript).
-h: Display this help message.
-v: Display the version.