This package contains a base64 encoder/decoder and a quoted-printable
encoder/decoder.  These encoding methods are specified in RFC 2045 -
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions).

The base64 encoding is designed to represent arbitrary sequences of
octets in a form that need not be humanly readable. A 65-character
subset ([A-Za-z0-9+/=]) of US-ASCII is used, enabling 6 bits to be
represented per printable character.

The quoted-printable encoding is intended to represent data that
largely consists of bytes that correspond to printable characters in
the ASCII character set.  Non-printable characters (as defined by
enghlish americans) are represented by a triplet consisting of the
character "=" followed by two hexadecimal digits.

The MIME::Base64 and MIME::QuotedPrint modules used to be part of
libwww-perl package.  They are now distributed separately (this
package).  The main news is that the base64 encoder is implemented by
XS functions.  This makes it about 20 times faster than the old
implementation in perl.

In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
5.002 or better.

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

Copyright 1995-1997 Gisle Aas.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.