converters/btoa 5.2.1p0 OpenBSD
encode/decode binary to printable ASCII
- System
- OpenBSD
- Repository
- OpenBSD ports
- Maintainer
- The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
- Categories
- converters
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% expansion. (btoa is thus more efficient than uuencode, which causes a 33% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2.1p0 newest | no data | - | The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]> | - |
| FreeBSD | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | none known | - | [email protected] | - |
| DragonFly | converters/btoa | 5.2_2,1 | none known | - | [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_add btoa
From the ports tree:
cd /usr/ports/converters/btoa && make install
Dependencies
No port depends on this one.