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UUE file format information

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by gralfus

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Can someone provide me with a link to how a UUE file is laid out? I'm not looking for converters, but information on how a UUE file is formatted and why. For example, I see "begin 644 filename.ext" but other times the number is 666 or 600. I want to know why that is and more info about the specs.

It is with these kinds of questions that I can't get a good response from Google, because there are a billion pages talking about file extensions or converters.

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by gralfus

The number represents the unix permissions on the file. 666 means read/write permissions for everyone, 644 is read/write for the owner, read for everyone else. These have no bearing in DOS/Windows.

The other info is also found in this link:
http://www.serve.com/jb/uu_e.txt

searched on uuencode specification

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