in reply to OT: What happened to uuencode?

If it helps. this one-liner will do roughly the same thing as uuencode I think. 

perl -ple"BEGIN{ $/=\32} $_ = pack 'u*', $_" file

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Update: Apparently it should be 

perl -ple"BEGIN{ $/=\45} $_ = pack 'u', $_" file

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