Lucigenic Binary is a lightweight COM component that provides essential routines for Internet applications. The component provides methods for ASCII, hexadecimal and decimal conversions, endian conversions, compression of files and strings, creation of self-decompressing archives, Base64 encoding and decoding for files and strings and URL validation and manipulation. Lucigenic Binary is a completely self-contained lightweight component that does not require any run-times for it''s operation.