On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 09:14:33 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>>
>Under OMVS on z/OS you can convert data to base64 with the "uuencode -m" 
>command. ...
> 
This appears to be POSIX, so should be available on most systems.  (But I 
needed to
install it for Ubuntu Linux.)

> ... The "-m" switch makes it use base64 instead of its normal form of 
> encoding. You just have to strip off or ignore the first and last line of the 
> result if you only want the base64 part.
>
"tail +2" (not +1!?  "Fencepost error".) strips off the first line.  Is there a 
utility
to strip the last line?  There seems to be no corresponding option for "head".

-- gil

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