Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII
Hmmmmm.....
I don't *think* this will work. What this thing needs to do is take raw binary
and convert it to ascii numbers (what my dad is doing, is hooking a credit-card
reader up to a Linux, so he needs the binary stream of #'s from the reader to
be converted to a more usable, ascii form)
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 04:11:12PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:12:57PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > My dad started a new project at work, which they will be using Linux for. He
> > came to me and asked me if Linux had a program to convert a binary stream to
> > ASCII characters. A co-worker of his told him that UNIX had a native utility
> > to do this (but he couldn't recall the name). What might this be (or what is
> > a program that could do this)?
>
> uuencode?
>
> [eb@socrates eb]$ head -c 100 /dev/urandom | uuencode -
> begin 644 -
> M[6=K,:NQ0,H]RNY8JD7Q$*-S^(0\D$(/AC7JNF/$N\YG2F22=IWBRB5BF,DQ
> M!AY4H%3HI7GAR/F2$'O=0"J8),>`T!``X"WP`-*Q6V6:@/E<MUX0A8M^FF(7
> *\CF=!=G10;T-C0``
> `
> end
> [eb@socrates eb]$
>
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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