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PROGRAM:

NAME


qprint - encode / decode file as RFC 1521 MIME Quoted-Printable

SYNOPSIS


qprint -d|-e [ options ] [ infile [ outfile ] ]

DESCRIPTION


The MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) specification RFC 1521 and successors)
defines a mechanism for encoding text consisting primarily of printable ASCII characters,
but which may contain characters (for example, accented letters in the ISO 8859 Latin-1
character set) which cannot be encoded as 7-bit ASCII or are non-printable characters
which may confuse mail transfer agents.

qprint is a command line utility which encodes and decodes files in this format. It can
be used within a pipeline as an encoding or decoding filter, and is most commonly used in
this manner as part of an automated mail processing system. With appropriate options,
qprint can encode pure binary files, but it's a poor choice since it may inflate the size
of the file by as much as a factor of three. The Base64 MIME encoding is a better choice
for such data.

OPTIONS


-b, --binary
Treat the input (when encoding) or output (when decoding) file as pure binary,
and process end of line sequences as binary data. Encoding and decoding a
file with this option preserves the exact sequence of bytes in the input, but
does not perform the translation of end of line sequences normally performed
by Quoted-Printable encoding.

--copyright Print program copyright information.

-d, --decode
Decodes the input, previously created by qprint, to recover the original input
file.

-e, --encode
Encodes the input into an output text file containing its qprint encoding.

-i, --ebcdic
Encode ASCII characters for which no equivalent exists in the EBCDIC character
set. This renders files more portable when transported to EBCDIC systems.

-n, --noerrcheck
Suppress error checking when decoding. By default, upon encountering a non
white space character which does not belong to the qprint set, or discovering
the input file is incorrectly padded to a multiple of four characters, qprint
issues an error message and terminates processing with exit status 1. The -n
option suppresses even this rudimentary error checking; invalid characters are
silently ignored and the output truncated to the last three valid octets if
the input is incorrectly padded.

-p ,--paranoid
Every character in the input file will be encoded as an escape sequence. You
must also specify the -b or --binary option if you wish end of line sequences
to be escaped as well. This option is a last resort when there's no other way
to transmit the file, but an encoding explicitly designed for binary data such
as Base64 is a much more economical choice.

-u, --help Print how-to-call information.

--version Print program version information.

EXIT STATUS


qprint returns status 0 if processing was completed without errors, 1 if an I/O error
occurred or errors were detected in decoding a file which indicate it is incorrect or
incomplete, and 2 if processing could not be performed at all due, for example, to a
nonexistent input file.

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