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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b/doc/binary.n index a40afe6..95be36e 100644 --- a/doc/binary.n +++ b/doc/binary.n @@ -96,25 +96,22 @@ largely superseded by the \fBbase64\fR binary encoding.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" |