#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use MIME::Base64 qw( encode_base64 ); open INFILE, '<', $ARGV[0]; binmode INFILE; open OUTFILE, '>', $ARGV[1]; my $buf; while ( read( INFILE, $buf, 60 * 57 ) ) { print OUTFILE encode_base64( $buf ); } close OUTFILE; close INFILE; __END__