< file format , multimedia > (MIME) A standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and World-Wide Web hypertext documents on the Internet . MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 2045 , RFC 2046 , RFC 2047 , RFC 2048 , RFC 2049 , and BCP0013 . It uses mimencode to encode binary data into base 64 using a subset of ASCII .
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(1995-04-04)