BSD Portsconverters/btoa 5.2_2,1 DragonFly
Encode/decode binary to printable ASCII
- System
- DragonFly
- Repository
- DPorts
- Maintainer
- [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
- Categories
- converters
- Package size
- 9.9 KiB, 17.7 KiB installed
Description
This is a port of btoa version 5.2, written by Paul Rutter, Joe Orost & Stefan Parmark. btoa converts 4 binary characters to 5 ascii ones, causing a 25%25 expansion. (btoa is thus more efficient than uuencode, which causes a 33%25 expansion.) Spaces will not be used, which should make it safe to send files over e-mail or Usenet without risking that blanks become tabs. Each resulting row of text has a single-byte checksum for error detection. A diagnosis file provides a list of errors found this way, which could then be used to retransmit only the failing lines.
Patch 1 is an unofficial, non-platform-specific patch to version 5.2 of btoa. It allows for automatic decoding of btoa files if the program is invoked as "atob" (no -a argument necessary). It also outfits the Makefile to do clean and install.
In the other systems
The newest version among them is 5.2.1, as upstream numbers it.
| System | Port | Version | Vulnerabilities | Status | Maintainer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DragonFly | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| FreeBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| OpenBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2.1p0 newest | no data | - | The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> | - |
| HardenedBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
| GhostBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | no data | - | [email protected] | - |
Install
Binary package:
pkg install btoaFrom DPorts:
cd /usr/dports/converters/btoa && make install cleanDependencies
No port depends on this one.
Configuration
No options to configure.
- Service scripts
- none
Message after installing
===> NOTICE: The btoa port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla More information about port maintainership is available at: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing