System information

Binary to ASCII

The Certificate System binary to ASCII tool, BtoA converts binary base-64 encoded data to

ASCII base-64 encoded data.

1. Syntax

The BtoA tool uses the following syntax:

BtoA input_file output_file

Option Description

input_file Specifies the path and file of the base-64

encoded binary data.

output_file Specifies the path and file to which the tool

should write the ASCII output.

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2. Usage

The following example of the BtoA utility takes the base-64 encoded binary data in the

binary_data.in file and writes the ASCII equivalent of the data to the ascii_data.out file.

BtoA /usr/home/smith/test/binary_data.in /usr/home/smith/test/ascii_data.out

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