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These programs convert between textual and binary representations of numbers.
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ascii2binary reads input consisting of textual representations of numbers
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separated by whitespace and produces as output the binary equivalents. The type
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and precision of the binary output is selected using command line flags.
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binary2ascii reads input consisting of binary numbers and converts them to
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their textual representation. Command line flags specify the type and size
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of the binary numbers and provide control over the format of the output.
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Unsigned integers may be written out in binary, octal, decimal, or hexadecimal.
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Signed integers may be written out only in binary or decimal. Floating point
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numbers may be written out only decimal, either in standard or scientific
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notation. (If you want to examine the binary representation of floating point
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numbers, just treat the input as a sequence of unsigned characters.)
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The two programs are useful for generating test data, for inspecting binary
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files, and for interfacing programs that generate textual output to programs
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that require binary input and conversely. They can also be useful when it is
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desired to reformat numbers.
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WWW: http://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html
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