UUTool was a freeware application written for the Apple Macintosh by Bernie Wieser. The purpose of UUTool was to
uuencode and uudecode files, however, the application functionality grew to translate
uLaw encoded files to
AIFF
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The format was developed by Apple Inc. in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File ...
format, segment large uuencoded files, and recombine multiple uuencoded files for decode.
Technical details
UUTool uuencoded files and attached the extension.
However, UUTool was the first Macintosh program that encoded the data fork,
resource fork, and finder information into one uuencoded file
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/ref> with the extension. The format for this was to catenate the three pieces of file information and uniquely name the resource fork and finder info as files. This allowed for some interoperability on non-Macintosh platforms.
''Example''
begin 0700 myfile
...
end
begin 0700 .rsrc
...
end
begin 0700 .finfo
...
end
Version history
See also
*uuencoding uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix programs uuencode and uudecode written by Mary Ann Horton at UC Berkeley in 1980, for encoding binary data for transmission in email systems.
The name "uuencoding" is deriv ...
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* BinHex
* StuffIt
References
External links
* http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Services/PDA/MacCompression.shtml
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Classic Mac OS software