ASCII to Binary

[Moisés Pereira Alvim]

Hello,
I used use a program named "atob" in NEC workstaions (UNIX system) that converts ASCII files in binary files. I was use the following syntaxe: atob [ascii file] [bin file].
I??d like to know how can I make this in HP worstations usin HP-UX systems. Is there a same program in this system?

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

hi,

I don't know what you mean by 'ASCII' and 'Binary' files. If it't dos and unix format, you can use "dos2ux dosfile > unixfile" or "ux2dos unixfile > dosfile"

Regards.

[Klaus Crusius]

Hi,

it would be really helpful to know the manual page of atob.
On hpux, you find a programs vis and inv, where the first one creates "visible" output, the second one converts back to whatever the input was.

Regards, Klaus

[Bill Hassell]

Yes, a little more explanation is in order. If you want to see the octal or hex represenation of an ASCII file (or any file), use xd or od as in:

xd /etc/profile

If it involves converting ASCII data files with numbers into a binary format, that will be a 100% custom job since there is no standard for a 'binary' data file--the file's format is defined by the program that is using the data.

[Sundar_7]

man uuencode

man uudecode

[Jack Werner]

Hi there,

You can look at the man pages for the tr command. You can construct any "character sets" you wish and have tr convert bytes from one character set to another.

[harry d brown jr]

get it from here:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/btoa-5.2/

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harry

[harry d brown jr]

The man pages are here:

atob and btoa

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Misc/btoa-5.2/man.html

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harry