Format
Uuencoded File
Summary
- Name
- Uuencoded File
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1102
- Format type
- Aggregate
- Description
- Uuencoding, (Unix-to-Unix encoding) is a binary to text encoding mechanism created by Mary Ann Horton for encoding binary data for transmission in email systems.
- File extensions
-
uue - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Uuencoded File
- Note
- BOF: 'begin '<unix permissions mode> ' ' <file name> newline character. EOF, max offset 2: newline character 'end'
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
626567696E20[30:37][30:37][30:37]20{1-256}0A- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 2
- Byte Sequence
0A656E64- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V93
- Release date
- 30 November 2017
Uuencoded File: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
Uuencoded File: Full entry added.