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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk>
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Subject: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file2c Makefile file2c.1 file2c.c
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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 :-)