Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 28-Oct-91 Re: Comment on encapsulatio..
henry(_at_)zoo(_dot_)toronto(_dot_)edu (803)
Folks interested in encodings of this ilk might want to look at the
bencode/bdecode package we ship with C News. It's basically uuencode
done right, and is designed to give bit-for-bit-reliable transmission
of binary data via most any mail path -- in particular, it gets data
through Bitnet mailers reliably, which is no small feat. Its format
includes both a byte count and a CRC. (Credit Where Credit Due Dept:
the folks at U of Waterloo gave us this package.)
Is there a published spec for this? Sounds like it would have been nice
to learn about this sooner...