xxencode is a binary-to-text encoding similar to uuencode which uses only the alphanumeric characters, and the plus and minus signs. It was invented as a means to transfer files in a format which would survive character set translation, particularly that between ASCII and the EBCDIC encoding used on IBM mainframes.[1]
^Tony Catone (February 1995). "Keys to the kingdom: Unlocking Internet file formats". University of Pennsylvania.
encoded bytes/60 characters) in the output. The following is an example of xxencoding a one-line text file. In this example, %0D is the byte representation...
character sets such as EBCDIC. One attempt to solve the problem was the xxencode format, which used only alphanumeric characters and the plus and minus...
8-bit files using Mary Ann Horton's uuencode, and later using BinHex or xxencode and pasting the resulting text into the body of the message. When the "Attachment"...
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