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 two methods for generating the base64 output. First the native uuencode tool that is very fast and second a plattform idependent implementation of base64 encode in AWK taken from the HylaFAX package.
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