MIME Types - Base64
- Posted by Lmailles <Lmailles at AOL.COM> Dec 19, 1997
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OK, thanks for describing BinHex, now can somebody tell me how Base64 works ? I know that it is used for non-text (8-bit files) and presumably encodes 8 bytes or 6 bits at a time, or something similiar. Stuffit Expander is freeware and opens most mime files, hqx, sit, zip, arc, arj, uue and lots more. It is available for most platforms as well so I personally recommend it for people having trouble with encoding and archives (and they did NOT pay me to say that). Have you guys writing the compression algorithms got anything to compete with zip that has built-in error correcting & CRC etc ? Daniel