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basE91 is an advanced method for encoding binary data as ASCII characters.
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It is similar to UUencode or base64, but is more efficient.
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The overhead produced by basE91 depends on the input data. It amounts at most
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to 23% (versus 33% for base64) and can range down to 14%, which typically
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occurs on 0-byte blocks.
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This makes basE91 very useful for transferring larger files over binary unsafe
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connections like e-mail or terminal lines.
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WWW: http://base91.sourceforge.net/
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