btoa(1) [minix man page]

BTOA(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   BTOA(1)

NAME

       btoa - binary to ascii conversion

SYNOPSIS

       btoa [-adhor] [infile] [outfile]

OPTIONS

       -a     Decode, rather than encode, the file

       -d     Extracts repair file from diagnosis file

       -h     Help menu is displayed giving the options

       -o     The obsolete algorithm is used for backward compatibility

       -r     Repair a damaged file

EXAMPLES

       btoa <a.out >a.btoa # Convert a.out to ASCII

       btoa -a <a.btoa >a.out
			   # Reverse the above

DESCRIPTION

       Btoa is a filter that converts a binary file to ascii for transmission over a telephone line.  If two file names are provided, the first in
       used for input and the second for output.  If only one is provided, it is used as the input file.  The program is  a  functionally  similar
       alternative to uue/uud, but the encoding is completely different.  Since both of these are widely used, both have been provided with MINIX.
       The file is expanded about 25 percent in the process.

SEE ALSO

       uue(1), uud(1).

																	   BTOA(1)

anytopnm(1)						      General Commands Manual						       anytopnm(1)

NAME

       anytopnm - attempt to convert an unknown type of image file to a portable anymap

SYNOPSIS

       anytopnm [file]

DESCRIPTION

       anytopnm  converts the input image, which may be in any of dozens of graphics formats, to PBM, PGM, or PPM format, depending on that nature
       of the input image, and outputs it to Standard Output.

       To determine the format of the input, anytopnm uses the file program (possibly assisted by the magic numbers file  fragment  included  with
       Netpbm).   If  that  fails  (very few image formats have magic numbers), anytopnm looks at the filename extension.  If that fails, anytopnm
       punts.

       The type of the output file depends on the input image.

       If file indicates that the input file is compressed (either via Unix compress, gzip, or bzip compression),  anytopnm  uncompresses  it  and
       proceeds as above with the uncompressed result.

       If file indicates that the input file is encoded by uuencode or btoa, anytopnm decodes it and proceeds as above with the decoded result.

       If file is - or not given, anytopnm takes its input from Standard Input.

SEE ALSO

       pnmfile(1), pnm(5), file(1)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.

								   11 July 2000 						       anytopnm(1)