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NAME
       [MIME::Decoder::UU](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/MIME%3A%3ADecoder%3A%3AUU/markdown) - decode a "uuencoded" stream

SYNOPSIS
       A generic decoder object; see [MIME::Decoder](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/MIME%3A%3ADecoder/markdown) for usage.

       Also supports a preamble() method to recover text before the uuencoded
       portion of the stream.

DESCRIPTION
       A [MIME::Decoder](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/MIME%3A%3ADecoder/markdown) subclass for a nonstandard encoding whereby data are
       uuencoded.  Common non-standard MIME encodings for this:

           x-uu
           x-uuencode

SEE ALSO
       [MIME::Decoder](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/MIME%3A%3ADecoder/markdown)

AUTHOR
       Eryq (<eryq@zeegee.com>), ZeeGee Software Inc (<http://www.zeegee.com>).

       UU-decoding code lifted from "uuexplode", a Perl script by an unknown
       author...

       All rights reserved.  This program is free software; you can
       redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.26.1                      2017-10-20            [MIME::Decoder](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/MIME%3A%3ADecoder/markdown)::[UU(3pm)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/UU/3pm/markdown)