BSD Ports

converters/base91 0.6.0_1 DragonFly

Utility to encode and decode base91 files

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
BSD3CLAUSE
Categories
converters
Package size
7.5 KiB, 13.6 KiB installed

Description

basE91 is an advanced method for encoding binary data as ASCII characters. It is similar to UUencode or base64, but is more efficient.

The overhead produced by basE91 depends on the input data. It amounts at most to 23%25 (versus 33%25 for base64) and can range down to 14%25, which typically occurs on 0-byte blocks.

This makes basE91 very useful for transferring larger files over binary unsafe connections like e-mail or terminal lines.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlyconverters/base910.6.0_1
FreeBSDconverters/base910.6.0_1
HardenedBSDconverters/base910.6.0_1
GhostBSDconverters/base910.6.0_1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install base91

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/converters/base91 && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.