Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-14 Thread Lars Knudsen
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 co

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ie 1010100010111010101011101010? > > Exactly. I don't know of any offhand, but you can go to http://www.snippets.org/snippets/index.php3, download snippets, and use bitstrng.c to write your own. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variet

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 06:30:58PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hm. > > 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 > str

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:37:30PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't *think* this will work. What this thing needs to do is take > > raw binary and convert it to ascii numbers > > Ie 1010100010111010101011101010? Exactly. Thanks, Cameron Mat

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't *think* this will work. What this thing needs to do is take > raw binary and convert it to ascii numbers Ie 1010100010111010101011101010? -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! This life is yours. Some of it was giv

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Kevin Ross
> (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) The credit card readers I've seen hook into the keyboard port, and just send keystrokes to the computer. No conversion ne

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On Fri, 11 May 2001 18:12:57 -0600 Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 t

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hm. 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) Than

Re: Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Ethan Benson
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

Program to convert binary stream to ASCII

2001-05-11 Thread Cameron Matheson
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 th