I have borrowed this code and don't know what it's trying to do - is it a standard?

Don't know if that code is standard (probably not, since it doesn't seem to work). But base64 is certainly a standard, which is documented here -- start at page 23.

Also, follow up on perlplexer's advice, if you can. Got a home directory, some disk space, and a shell prompt? download the MIME module for perl yourself, make a subdir in your home called "perl_modules", install the download there, then add "-I/home/you/perl_modules" on the shebang line of your perl script that uses the module. Perl will find it.

www.cpan.org will have some info and methods that will make this easy.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Question about Binary files by graff
in thread Question about Binary files by zzzeno

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