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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file2c Makefile file2c.1 file2c.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jan 1995 16:50:06 PST."
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Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 00:25:17 -0800
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.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 :-)