TRANSTAB(1)					 V1.13     1997-06-14

Name
	transtab  --  8-bit Character Encoding Converter Generator

Function
        transtab is a program that reads two Character Encoding Descriptions
        Files and creates a converter program source or just a table or a
        binary translation table file.

Type
        (External) tool

Format
        transtab src_code dst_code tab_name {-c|-t|-u|-b|-n} {-d}

              All parameters in {} are optional.

              Positional parameters:

              src_code    the name of the source Encoding Description File

              dst_code    the name of the destination Encoding Description File

              tab_name    this is the filename prefix for the converter source

              optional switches (can be positioned "anywhere")

              -c          create complete ANSI-C program source
                          <tab_name>.tab, <tab_name>.c and <tab_name>.h

              -t          create table file <tab_name>.tab only
                          for #include in C programs

              -u          create table file <tab_name>.uni only
                          this is Unicode A Format used by unicode.org

              -b          create table binary file <tab_name>.xlt
                          used by transce8

              -n          create no file

              -d          dumps tables read (for debugging) to stdout

Note
        Default is "-c". Only one of "-c", "-t", "-b" and "-n" is allowed.

Example
        # create a converter from ISO 8859-1 to Codepage 850
        transtab iso8859.1 cp850 iso1x850
        # create only the conversion table from Codepage 852 to ISO 8859-2
        transtab cp852 iso8895.2 852xiso2 -t

Author/Copyright
        Copyright (c) 1993-1997 by kosta@kostis.net (Kosta Kostis)
        This program may be used free of charge at your own risk.
