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ASCII-XFR(1) Linux Users Manual ASCII-XFR(1) NAME
ascii-xfr - upload/download files using the ASCII protocol SYNOPSIS
ascii-xfr -s|-r [-ednv] [-l linedelay] [-c characterdelay] filename DESCRIPTION
Ascii-xfr Transfers files in ASCII mode. This means no flow control, no checksumming and no file-name negotiation. It should only be used if the remote system doesn't understand anything else. The ASCII protocol transfers files line-by-line. The EOL (End-Of-Line) character is transmitted as CRLF. When receiving, the CR character is stripped from the incoming file. The Control-Z (ASCII 26) character signals End-Of-File, if option -e is specified (unless you change it to Cotrol-D (ASCII 4) with -d). Ascii-xfr reads from stdin when receiving, and sends data on stdout when sending. Some form of input or output redirection to the modem device is thus needed when downloading or uploading, respectively. OPTIONS
-s Send a file. -r Receive a file. One of -s or -r must be present. -e Send the End-Of-File character (Control-Z, ASCII 26 by default) when uploading has finished. -d Use the Control-D (ASCII 4) as End-Of-File character. -n Do not translate CR to CRLF and vice versa. -v Verbose: show tranfer statistics on the stderr output. -l milliseconds When transmitting, pause for this delay after each line. -c milliseconds When transmitting, pause for this delay after each character. file Name of the file to send or receive. When receiving, any existing file by this name will be truncated. USAGE WITH MINICOM
If you want to call this program from minicom(1), start minicom and go to the Options menu. Select File transfer protocols. Add the fol- lowing lines, for example as protocols I and J. I Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -sv Y U N Y J Ascii /usr/bin/ascii-xfr -rv Y D N Y AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg, miquels@cistron.nl Jukka Lahtinen, walker@netsonic.fi SEE ALSO
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ascii - report character aliases SYNOPSIS
ascii [-dxohv] [-t] [char-alias...] OPTIONS
Called with no options, ascii behaves like `ascii -h'. Options are as follows: -t Script-friendly mode, emits only ISO/decimal/hex/octal/binary encodings of the character. -s Parse multiple characters. Convenient way of parsing strings. -d Ascii table in decimal. -x Ascii table in hex. -o Ascii table in octal. -h, -? Show summary of options and a simple ASCII table. -v Show version of program. DESCRIPTION
Characters in the ASCII set can have many aliases, depending on context. A character's possible names include: * Its bit pattern (binary representation). * Its hex, decimal and octal representations. * Its teletype mnemonic and caret-notation form (for control chars). * Its backlash-escape form in C (for some control chars). * Its printed form (for printables). * Its full ISO official name in English. * Its ISO/ECMA code table reference. * Its name as an HTML/SGML entity. * Slang and other names in wide use for it among hackers. This utility accepts command-line strings and tries to interpret them as one of the above. When it finds a value, it prints all of the names of the character. The constructs in the following list can be used to specify character values. If an argument could be interpreted in two or more ways, names for all the different characters it might be are dumped. character Any character not described by one of the following conventions represents the character itself. ^character A caret followed by a character. character A backslash followed by certain special characters (abfnrtv). mnemonic An ASCII teletype mnemonic. hexadecimal A hexadecimal (hex) sequence consists of one or two case-insensitive hex digit characters (01234567890abcdef). To ensure hex interpretation use hexh, 0xhex, xhex or xhex. decimal A decimal sequence consists of one, two or three decimal digit characters (0123456789). To ensure decimal interpretation use ddecimal, ddecimal, or ddecimal. octal An octal sequence consists of one, two or three octal digit characters (01234567). To ensure octal interpretation use octal, 0ooctal, ooctal, or ooctal. bit pattern A bit pattern (binary) sequence consists of one to eight binary digit characters (01). To ensure bit interpretation use 0bbit pattern, bbit pattern or bit pattern. ISO/ECMA code A ISO/ECMA code sequence consists of one or two decimal digit characters, a slash, and one or two decimal digit characters. name An official ASCII or slang name. The slang names recognized and printed out are from a rather comprehensive list that first appeared on USENET in early 1990 and has been continuously updated since. Mnemonics recognized and printed include the official ASCII set, some official ISO names (where those differ) and a few common-use alternatives (such as NL for LF). HTML/SGML entity names are also printed when applicable. All comparisons are case-insensitive, and dashes are mapped to spaces. Any unrecognized arguments or out of range values are silently ignored. Note that the -s option will not recognize 'long' names, as it cannot differentiate them from other parts of the string. For correct results, be careful to stringize or quote shell metacharacters in arguments (especially backslash). This utility is particularly handy for interpreting cc(1)'s ugly octal `invalid-character' messages, or when coding anything to do with serial communications. As a side effect it serves as a handy base-converter for random 8-bit values. AUTHOR
Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com; November 1990 (home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/). Reproduce, use, and modify as you like as long as you don't remove this authorship notice. Ioannis E. Tambouras <ioannis@debian.org> added command options and minor enhancements. Brian J. Ginsbach <ginsbach@sgi.com> fixed several bugs and expanded the man page. David N. Welton <davidw@efn.org> added the -s option. Matej Vela corrected the ISO names. Dave Capella contributed the idea of listing HTML/SGML entities. ascii 03/26/2011 ASCII(1)