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 cabal run
 ```
 
+## Usage
+
+* Pipe via stdin to transcode
+* Modes are __encoding__ and __decoding__ 
+* Encoding is done in the following way
+```sh
+echo Hello, World! | based encode --b91
+>OwJh>}AQ;r@@Y?FF
+```
+* Decoding is implicated in the following way 
+```
+echo '>OwJh>}AQ;r@@Y?FF' | based --b91
+```
+
+