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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Gustavo Noronha Silva
  • Date: 2009-02-15 13:00:43 UTC
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  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090215130043-q47fbt3owmt42m2f
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#include &lt;glib.h&gt;
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<a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gsize">gsize</a>               <a class="link" href="glib-Base64-Encoding.html#g-base64-encode-step">g_base64_encode_step</a>                (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#guchar">guchar</a> *in,
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<a class="indexterm" name="id3082318"></a><pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gsize">gsize</a>               g_base64_encode_close               (<a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gboolean">gboolean</a> break_lines,
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<a class="indexterm" name="id3082500"></a><pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar">gchar</a>*              g_base64_encode                     (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#guchar">guchar</a> *data,
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<a class="indexterm" name="id3082629"></a><pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gsize">gsize</a>               g_base64_decode_step                (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar">gchar</a> *in,
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<a class="indexterm" name="id3082821"></a><pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#guchar">guchar</a>*             g_base64_decode                     (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar">gchar</a> *text,
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