rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (06/10/85)
I put out a request earlier for a binary <==> ASCII converter. I thank those who have responded to me already, but I'm still as the Subject line indicates. The problem is, both uuencode/uudecode and btoa/atob are wonderful but they are not conducive to converting stuff for SCCS because they output '%'s. I tried btoa on one of my object files and got both a '%H%' and a '%I%' in the output. When these files are put under SCCS and later retrieved, these two strings will be expanded to be the current date and the SID of the file, respectively, and atob will barf because its checksums won't. If I can't get a filter that won't output '%', or can't hack an existing algorithm, I can resort to pulling stuff out using get(1)'s '-k' flag. But the software I am using for source control is itself an interface to SCCS and tends to do funny things when you use switches; I'd really prefer to get (or hack) a filter that'll not output '%'. I don't know who the author/poster of btoa was, but could s/he possibly drop me a line (or someone give me that person's address) so I could talk to them about their algorithm? Thanks very much for your time, -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj