From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2000-01-23T07:40:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01164] Re: Pack options

Hi,

  In mail "[ruby-talk:01163] Pack options"
    Andrew Hunt <andy@Toolshed.Com> wrote:

> Just a quick question about "pack".  In the source, there a couple
> of options that aren't in the documentation.  Here are my guesses:
(snip..)
> Can someone enlighten me on the "M" flag? Internally, it uses a
> routine called "qpencode" if that rings any bells...

The M flag is "quoted printable" encoding, used in MIME message.
see also [RFC2045]

Minero Aoki