From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrUCZ-0005H2-77 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:26:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hrUCX-0002vf-SO for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:26:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hrUCX-0002vP-OL for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:26:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrUCX-0007eF-KU for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:26:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#36825] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add ascii2binary. References: <20190727212338.567-1-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> In-Reply-To: <20190727212338.567-1-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> Resent-Message-ID: From: Hartmut Goebel Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 23:25:33 +0200 Message-Id: <20190727212534.631-1-h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: 36825@debbugs.gnu.org * gnu/packages/textutils.scm (ascii2binary): New variable. --- gnu/packages/textutils.scm | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm index d1dc14e6d7..aeb1953b99 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/textutils.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/textutils.scm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Marius Bakke ;;; Copyright © 2017 Eric Bavier ;;; Copyright © 2017 Rene Saavedra -;;; Copyright © 2017 Hartmut Goebel +;;; Copyright © 2017,2019 Hartmut Goebel ;;; Copyright © 2017 Kei Kebreau ;;; Copyright © 2017 Alex Vong ;;; Copyright © 2018 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice @@ -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") -- 2.21.0