README.md

MooMoo - a file encoder/decoder

This project implements two commands in C, moo and unmoo, that will encode and decode a file in the MooMoo encoding scheme. While not intended to be useful in and of itself, the program is an example of how to structure a small to medium sized C command-line program.

Absolutely blatantly ripped off from https://github.com/JnyJny/meowmeow/

Requirements

• C compiler
• GNU make

Build

0. Clone

   $ git clone https://github.com/biggnome/MooMoo.git

1. Compile

   $ make

2. Run

   $ ./moo < clear_text > moo_text
   $ ./unmoo < moo_text | diff clear_text
   $

MooMoo Encoding Scheme

The MooMoo encoding scheme is direct rip-off of another encoding scheme, MooMoo Encode. In short, each byte in file is encoded into a string "mooomooo" where uppercase indicates a 1 and lowercase is a zero, in this case the string encodes a zero. Consider these three bytes:

   unsigned char zeros = 0x0;
   unsigned char ones = 0xff;
   unsigned char camel = 0xA5;

• The value in zeros encodes to "mooomooo".
• The value in ones encodes to "MOOOMOOO".
• The value in camel encodes to "MoOomOoO.