Base 64 Encoding
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The code presented here encodes binary data to Base64 formatted Text and Decodes Base64 formatted Text to the original binary data.
This encoding is used to convert binary files into text files so that they can be sent through e-mail systems.
The encoded data is a third larger than the original data.
Base64 format is part of the MIME protocol.

Base64.h has a class, MIME which Performs Base64 encoding and decoding of a whole File.
Any one encoded line of text will not exceed 77 characters.
Base64 produces smaller encoded files than Unix to Unix (UU).
Usage:
  MIME::Encode("C:\\T.b64"   ,"C:\\T.bmp");
  MIME::Decode("C:\\TB64.bmp","C:\\T.b64");

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