.Dd November 16, 1996
.Dt QUOTED-PRINTABLE 1
.Os NetBSD 1.2BETA
.Sh NAME
.Nm quoted-printable
.Nd MIME quoted-printable encoding/decoding utility
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Fl d | e | E
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a small tool that understands the MIME QUOTED-PRINTABLE (see
RFC-1521) encoding, capable of performing both encoding arbitrary octet
streams into quoted-printable form and decoding of such data streams
into the octet streams they code for.
.Pp
The
.Fl e
flag specifies encoding, accepting an arbitrary octet stream on
standard input and generating a quoted-printable data stream on
standard output;
.Fl d
specifies the converse, accepting a quoted-printable data stream on
standard input and generating the decoded data stream on standard
output.
.Fl E
is just like
.Fl e
except that it encodes more things, attempting to generate a somewhat
more robust encoded data stream at the price of encoding more
characters.  In particular,
.Fl E
encodes TABs and the 15 characters
.Dl !"#$@[\]^`{|}~
as well as any minus sign that would otherwise be the first character
of a line;
.Fl e
does not encode any of the above.
.Pp
.Nm
does not deal with any other aspects of MIME, such as generating or
interpreting part boundaries, headers like Content-Transfer-Encoding:,
or anything else besides bare data stream encoding and decoding.
.Sh AUTHOR
der Mouse,
.Aq mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca .