[BusyBox] [PATCH] uuencode and binary data

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Mon Jan 26 07:17:42 UTC 2004


On Sun Jan 25, 2004 at 02:54:08AM +0100, Pascal Brisset wrote:
> uuencode fails to encode binary data because it right-shifts
> bytes as signed chars and keeps the duplicated sign bits.
> 
> The original base64_encode() from wget/http.c is broken as well,
> but it is only used to encode ascii data.
> 
> -- Pascal

Thanks, applied.

 -Erik

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