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From the man page:
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The mimencode program simply converts a byte stream into (or out of) one of
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the standard mail encoding formats defined by MIME, the proposed standard
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for internet multimedia mail formats. Such an encoding is necessary
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because binary data cannot be sent through the mail. The encodings under-
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stood by mimencode are preferable to the use of the uuencode/uudecode pro-
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grams, for use in mail, in several respects that were important to the
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authors of MIME.
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Mmencode is part of metamail, and can be installed as part of that package.
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It is provided here as an independent package since some programs require
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mmencode only and hence you can avoid having to install the entire metalmail
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package when not required.
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