mime::decoder::binary(3)
NAME
MIME::Decoder::Binary - perform no encoding/decoding
SYNOPSIS
A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.
DESCRIPTION
A MIME::Decoder subclass for the "binary" encoding (in
other words, no encoding).
The "binary" decoder is a special case, since it's illadvised to read the input line-by-line: after all, an
uncompressed image file might conceivably have
loooooooooong stretches of bytes without a "0 among
them, and we don't want to risk blowing out our core. So,
we read-and-write fixed-size chunks.
Both the encoder and decoder do a simple pass-through of
the data from input to output.
AUTHOR
Eryq (eryq@zeegee.com), ZeeGee Software Inc
(http://www.zeegee.com).
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you
can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
as Perl itself.
VERSION
- $Revision: 5.403 $ $Date: 2000/11/04 19:54:48 $