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Re: ascii und binär



Hallo nochmal!

Pedro Sanfilo wrote:
> gibt es unter debian ein tool
> um ein ascii(text) in ein
> binär-format umzuwandelt
> und andersrum ?!
> wenn ja wie heist es denn?

Suchst Du eventuell btoa?

> fernst@live:~$ apt-cache show btoa
> [...]
> Description: Convert binary to ascii and vice versa
>  Btoa converts 4 binary characters to 5 ascii ones, causing a 25%
>  expansion. Spaces will not be used, which should make it safe
>  to send files over Usenet without risking that blanks become
>  tabs.

Aus der man-page:
> Btoa is a filter which reads binary bytes from the input file and
> generates printable ASCII characters on the output file. It attaches
> a header and a checksum to the archive. It can also reverse this,
> creating a binary file from the archive.

HTH,
Flo



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