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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ASC2BIN</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1A</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class='date'>02 April 2001</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='source'>NIST</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='manual'>NFIS Reference Manual</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>asc2bin</refname>
<refpurpose>converts a PCASYS data file from ascii to binary form.</refpurpose>
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<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>
<cmdsynopsis>
  <command>asc2bin</command>    
    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>&lt;ascii_data_in&gt;&lt;binary_data_out&gt;</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
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<refsect1 id='description'><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para><emphasis remap='B'>Asc2bin</emphasis>
reads a PCASYS ascii data file of any type, or the standard input,
and produces a corresponding PCASYS binary data file.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='options'><title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='I'>&lt;ascii_data_in&gt;</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Ascii data file to be read.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><emphasis remap='I'>&lt;binary_data_out&gt;</emphasis></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Binary data file to be written.
If this file already exists, asc2bin overwrites it.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='examples'><title>EXAMPLE(S)</title>
<para>From <emphasis remap='I'>test/pcasys/execs/asc2bin/asc2bin.src</emphasis>:</para>

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<para><emphasis remap='B'>% asc2bin ../../data/oas/fv1.cls fv1.bin</emphasis>
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Converts the class file from ascii to binary data.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='see_also'><title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>bin2asc (1A)</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='author'><title>AUTHOR</title>
<para>NIST/ITL/DIV894/Image Group</para>
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