CONVICKT(1)CONVICKT(1)NAMEconvickt - convert INTERCAL files between formats
SYNOPSISconvickt incharset outcharset [paddingrule [arrayname]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page describes the convickt command. Fuller documentation
is available via the command info convickt
convickt converts INTERCAL programs from one character set to another;
it takes input from standard input and sends its output to standard
output.
OPTIONS
For incharset and outcharset
atari Interpret the input as being ASCII-7 Atari syntax INTERCAL, as
is used by the Atari INTERCAL-72 compiler, J-INTERCAL, and C-
INTERCAL default syntax, or output in that syntax.
baudot Interpret the input as being in CLC-INTERCAL's extended Baudot
syntax, or output in that syntax.
ebcdic Interpret the input as being in the CLC-INTERCAL dialect of
EBCDIC, or output in that syntax.
latin1 Interpret the input as being Latin-1 Princeton syntax INTERCAL,
as is used by default by CLC-INTERCAL and also readable by C-
INTERCAL with the -X switch, or output in that syntax.
For paddingrule
zero Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with zeros.
printable
Set the values of the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot out‐
put to try to cause the output to stay within character range
32-126. This option is the default. (Note that paddingrule is
irrelevant for 8-bit character sets like Latin-1 and EBCDIC).
random Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with random
data, except that outputing an all-bits-zero octet is avoided.
CAVEATS
Not all conversions are possible, due to the character sets having dif‐
ferent characters available. In most cases, an unconvertible or invalid
character will be converted to a 0 (padded appropriately); the excep‐
tion is that if a tab cannot be converted, it will instead be converted
to a single space (so that INTERCAL programs still run if converted to
Baudot). Using atari as an input or output character set will literally
convert characters which differ between Atari and Princeton syntax
without checking to see whether they are being used as operators or
not.
If arrayname is given, then instead of outputting the converted text
literally, it will be output as portable (that is, legal in INTER‐
CAL-72, C-INTERCAL, J-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL) INTERCAL that dimen‐
sions the tail array given as arrayname and assigns each byte of the
output to an element of that array; this is mostly useful for producing
Baudot text for CLC-INTERCAL-style array IO.
AUTHORconvickt and this manual page were written by Alex Smith.
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