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There's been prior art, I was immediately reminded of Ascii85 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding#Encoding_standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding#Encodi... Incidentally every Windows desktop now has UUENCODE built in C:\>dir > %TEMP%\foo && tar -cf - --format shardump %TEMP%\foo Finally I can extract those usenet archives. :)