[COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] [COPY] Filename: package/.../ascii/ascii.desc [COPY] Copyright (C) 2008 The OpenSDE Project [COPY] [COPY] More information can be found in the files COPYING and README. [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. A copy of the [COPY] GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING. [COPY] --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] Recognize and print ASCII character names and decimal/octal/hex codes [T] Ascii takes a command line argument, recognizes in it any of the [T] synonyms for an ASCII character and prints all the others. Synonyms [T] include decimal, octal and hex numerical values, ASCII mnemonics, ISO [T] code points and official names, HTML/SGML style entities, and slang [T] names ranging from common to obscure. As a side effect, ascii serves as [T] a handy base converter for values in the range 0-255. [U] http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/ [A] Eric S. Raymond [M] Alejandro Mery [C] extra/tool [L] GPL [S] Stable [V] 3.8 [P] X -----5---9 800.000 [D] 3739032000 ascii-3.8.tar.gz http://www.catb.org/~esr/ascii/