Extra Handy Little Utilities and Programs

The following utilities are included in the Affine Toolkit. These tools are not all of the programs included in the toolkit, just those for doing a few handy binary/ASCII character file conversions:

• bin2hex -- Convert binary characters into ASCII printed hex numbers.
• bin2oct -- Convert binary characters into ASCII printed octal numbers.
• dbl2oct -- Convert ASCII printed floating point values into RIB encoded IEEE double precision form.
• dec2hex -- Convert ASCII printed decimal numbers into ASCII printed hex numbers.
• flt2oct -- Convert ASCII printed floating point values into RIB encoded IEEE floats.
• hex2bin -- Convert ASCII printed hex numbers into binary characters.
• hex2dec -- Convert ASCII printed hex numbers into ASCII printed decimal numbers.
• ibm2unix -- Remove DOS, NT and OS/2 two byte carriage returns in favor of UNIX version of '\n'.
• mac2unix -- Remove Mac carriage returns in favor of UNIX version of '\n'.
• oct2bin -- Convert ASCII printed octal numbers into binary characters.
• str2oct -- Convert given ASCII strings into RIB encoded strings printed out as a series of ASCII octal numbers.
• untab -- Remove tabs from ASCII files.