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authorHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2019-07-27 23:21:29 +0200
committerHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2019-08-27 09:28:09 +0200
commit7577ab55569defc018dfe342239aa9a8e17d67b1 (patch)
tree1f8fe41d7f1fb59e66b45e4b3cbaa2630ac350da /gnu
parent9e3ef6f3e37aa65f25cbe025106324144ed42b3d (diff)
gnu: Add ascii2binary.
* gnu/packages/textutils.scm (ascii2binary): New variable.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/textutils.scm46
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm
index 2c520dfbdf..6e07553e95 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Rene Saavedra <rennes@openmailbox.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2017 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2017,2019 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>
;;; Copyright © 2017 Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
@@ -321,6 +321,50 @@ input bits thoroughly but are not suitable for cryptography.")
;; entails."
(license license:public-domain)))
+(define-public ascii2binary
+ (package
+ (name "ascii2binary")
+ (version "2.14")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "http://billposer.org/Software/Downloads/"
+ "ascii2binary-" version ".tar.bz2"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "0dc9fxcdmppbs9s06jvq61zbk552laxps0xyk098gj41697ihd96"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (native-inputs
+ `(("gettext" ,gettext-minimal)))
+ (home-page "https://billposer.org/Software/a2b.html")
+ (synopsis "Convert between ASCII, hexadecimal and binary representations")
+ (description "The two programs are useful for generating test data, for
+inspecting binary files, and for interfacing programs that generate textual
+output to programs that require binary input and conversely. They can also be
+useful when it is desired to reformat numbers.
+
+@itemize
+
+@item @command{ascii2binary} reads input consisting of ascii or hexadecimal
+ representation numbers separated by whitespace and produces as output
+ the binary equivalents. The type and precision of the binary output
+ is selected using command line flags.
+
+@item @command{binary2ascii} reads input consisting of binary numbers
+ and converts them to their ascii or hexadecimal representation.
+ Command line flags specify the type and size of the binary numbers
+ and provide control over the format of the output.
+ Unsigned integers may be written out in binary, octal, decimal,
+ or hexadecimal.
+
+ Signed integers may be written out only in binary or decimal. Floating
+ point numbers may be written out only decimal, either in standard or
+ scientific notation. (If you want to examine the binary representation
+ of floating point numbers, just treat the input as a sequence of unsigned
+ characters.)
+
+@end itemize")
+ (license license:gpl3)))
+
(define-public libconfig
(package
(name "libconfig")