Example conversion tables for CONV
These tables should be regarded as "binary".
Almost always they will be indecipherable in an ordinary
file reader.
A robust screen editor like "GNU-Emacs" is a good place to
view them (and also to make them).
- ROT-13 conversion
- For those who have never heard of "ROT 13": it is an order
2 conversion operating only on printable text that is used
for insecure encryption such as hiding the answer to
a posed question.
- "Carriage-return" removal
- This table simply substitutes the empty string for each
"carriage-return". This conversion is sometimes usefully applied
to a file that has been moved to a UNIX platform from an MSDOS
platform.
- LF to CR-LF conversion
- This table simply substitutes a two character string consisting
of a "carriage-return" followed by a "linefeed" for each
"linefeed". This conversion is sometimes usefully applied to a
file that has been moved to an MSDOS platform from a UNIX
platform.
- MTE to LaserJet conversion
- This table makes an MTE file ready for
printing on a Hewlett Packard Laser Jet printer with an appropriate
NON-PROPORTIONAL "math font". (Remember that typewriters have
fixed-width fonts.) It is furnished only as an example inasmuch
as it is likely not to work without modification.