Subject: bin/33319: there ought to be a base64 decoder in /usr/bin
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Seebs <seebs@guild.plethora.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/20/2006 19:30:01
>Number: 33319
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: base64 is annoying
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 20 19:30:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Seebs
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.8
>Organization:
Consulting, computers, web hosting, and shell access: http://www.plethora.net/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD guild.plethora.net 3.99.8 NetBSD 3.99.8 (GUILD) #0: Fri Sep 2 02:21:19 CDT 2005 seebs@guild.plethora.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GUILD i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Occasionally files get encoded as base64, and a command-line utility
to disencode them would be handy.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to sign up at a buggy BBS.
>Fix:
Add this public domain base64 encoder/decoder to the system.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/