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second to last line is also a character indicating the line length, with the grave accent signifying zero bytes.

As a complete file, the uuencoded output for a plain text file named cat.txt containing only the characters Cat would be begin 644 cat.txt #0V%T ` end

The begin line is a standard uuencode header; the '#' indicates that its line encodes three characters; the last two lines appear at the end of all uuencoded files.

Formatting mechanism

The mechanism of uuencoding repeats the following

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