# MIME::Decoder::Binary

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- AUTHOR
- VERSION

## NAME

MIME::Decoder::Binary - perform no encoding/decoding

## SYNOPSIS

A generic decoder object; see MIME::Decoder for usage.

## DESCRIPTION

A MIME::Decoder subclass for the `"binary"` encoding (in other words, no encoding).

The `"binary"` decoder is a special case, since it's ill-advised to read the input line-by-line: after all, an uncompressed image file might conceivably have loooooooooong stretches of bytes without a `"\n"` among them, and we don't want to risk blowing out our core. So, we read-and-write fixed-size chunks.

Both the encoder and decoder do a simple pass-through of the data from input to output.

## AUTHOR

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

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

## VERSION

$Revision: 5.203 $ $Date: 2000/06/10 06:38:05 $