[2152292] Corrected implementation of uuencoding.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/doc/binary.n b/doc/binary.n
index a40afe6..95be36e 100644
--- a/doc/binary.n
+++ b/doc/binary.n
@@ -96,25 +96,22 @@ largely superseded by the \fBbase64\fR binary encoding.
 .RS
 .PP
 During encoding, the following options are supported:
-'\" This is wrong! The uuencode format had more complexity than this!
 .TP
 \fB\-maxlen \fIlength\fR
 .
 Indicates that the output should be split into lines of no more than
-\fIlength\fR characters. By default, lines are not split.
-.TP
-\fB\-wrapchar \fIcharacter\fR
-.
-Indicates that, when lines are split because of the \fB\-maxlen\fR option,
-\fIcharacter\fR should be used to separate lines. By default, this is a
-newline character,
-.QW \en .
+\fIlength\fR characters. By default, lines are split every 61 characters, and
+this must be in the range 3 to 85 due to limitations in the encoding.
 .PP
 During decoding, the following options are supported:
 .TP
 \fB\-strict\fR
 .
-Instructs the decoder to throw an error if it encounters whitespace characters. Otherwise it ignores them.
+Instructs the decoder to throw an error if it encounters whitespace
+characters. Otherwise it ignores them.
+.PP
+Note that neither the encoder nor the decoder handle the header and footer of
+the uuencode format.
 .RE
 .VE 8.6
 .SH "BINARY FORMAT"