Description: Encodes a given file to (a slighly different, + is converted to - for sending it as post variable via wget) base64 format and appends the output to statusdata.post. There are three methods for generating the base64 output. First and second the native uuencode and base64 tools that are very fast and third a plattform idependent implementation of base64 encode in AWK taken from the HylaFAX package.
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