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TITLE

cvt - Re-implementation of the same-named RSX-11 utility.

SYNOPSIS

 cvt data ...
 cvt -help
 cvt -version

OPTIONS

-help

This option displays the documentation for this script. The script then exits.

-version

This option displays the version of this script. The script then exits.

DETAILS

This Perl script is a re-implementation of the RSX-11 utility cvt, which converted data among various radices.

The data to be converted are passed as arguments of the following form:

   &xxxx  represents a hexadecimal number
   %xxx   represents RAD50 characters
   "cc    represents ASCII characters
   nnnnn. represents a decimal number (note the trailing
          decimal point)
   nnnnn  represents an octal number.

Users should be aware that the above specifications may well contain characters that your shell interprets as metacharacters.

AUTHOR

Thomas R. Wyant, III wyant at cpan dot org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2007, 2011-2022 by Thomas R. Wyant, III (wyant at cpan dot org). All rights reserved.

PDP-11, RSTS-11, RSTS/E, RSX-11, RSX-11M+, P/OS and RT-11 are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5.10.0. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.