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Convert a tab delimited/variable length file to fixed length file
Post 302270106 by Franklin52 on Friday 19th of December 2008 05:21:06 PM
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mkcsmapper -- generates hashed conversion data for iconv(3) SYNOPSIS
mkcsmapper [-mpd] -o outfile infile DESCRIPTION
The mkcsmapper utility generates binary conversion data from plain text conversion tables for the iconv(3) library. The conversion data has two components: The conversion mapping between specific character encodings. A pivot file, which the possible source and destination encod- ing pairs or the set of mappings to use for a compound encoding. The following options are available: -d Turns on debug mode. -m Generate mapping data from infile. -o outfile Put generated binary data to outfile. -p Generate pivot data from outfile. EXIT STATUS
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iconv(1), mkesdb(1), iconv(3) HISTORY
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