Outstanding, exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you very much!

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David Olbersen 
iGuard Engineer
11415 West Bernardo Court 
San Diego, CA 92127 
1-858-676-2277 x2152


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Joseph Newton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:13 PM
> To: David Olbersen
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Slightly OT
> 
> 
> David Olbersen wrote:
> 
> > I'm writing a script that will be (among other things) 
> decoding email attachments using MIME::Decoder.
> >
> > I plan on limiting the maximum attachment size to some limit.
> >
> > Does anybody know where I can find the size differences 
> between the encoded and decoded file?
> >
> > That is to say, does the base64 encoded version of a 1k 
> file still take up 1k?
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> The data ratio is 4:3, since base-64 uses 4 bytes to code 
> three bytes of data.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Joseph
> 
> 

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