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? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ > > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
