Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 00:25:17 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-usrbin@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file2c Makefile file2c.1 file2c.c Message-ID: <199501290825.AAA06062@precipice.Shockwave.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jan 1995 16:50:06 PST." <199501290050.QAA26218@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Age old questions:
Do we -really- need this in the src distribution?
Isn't this a better canidate for ports?
Shouldn't additions to src be discussed on core first?
Paul
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com>
Subject: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file2c Makefile file2c.1 file2c.c
phk 95/01/28 16:50:04
Added: usr.bin/file2c Makefile file2c.1 file2c.c
Log:
This is a small little program used to execute a bad practice a clean way :
>>-)
It will read a file on stdin and write it as decimal integers on stdout,
this is useful for embedding files in c-sources.
There are a few places where this is needed, and this is a better way than
the current practice of hand-editing the sources.
The command:
date | file2c 'const char date[] = {' ',0};'
will produce:
const char date[] = {
83,97,116,32,74,97,110,32,50,56,32,49,54,58,52,55,58,51,51,32,80,83,84,
32,49,57,57,53,10
,0};
The manual page is 2 lines longer than the source :-)
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