e-ascii

Karel Kubat, e-tunity

2000 ff.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction

The utility e-ascii is a small program that displays - yes, really, the ASCII table. All characters between ASCII 0 and 255 inclusive are shown, with their character representation (when printable) and with the ASCII code as hexadecimal, octal and decimal numbers.

e-ascii supports a number of flags. Try e-ascii -h to see usage information.

2: Obtaining and installing

e-ascii comes as an archive e-ascii-X.YY.tar.gz, where X.YY is a version identifier. The archive creates a subdirectory e-ascii/ and spills its contents there.

Prerequisites for a succesful installation are:

• The e-tunity support library e-lib must be present.
• The environment variable EBINDIR must point to the directory where e-ascii will be installed.
• Helper scripts, parts of the e-tunity package misc, must be available.

When these prerequisites are met, make install creates and installs the tool