Translate v.05, by Erick Hammersmark.

Translate is a command-line utility to translate between a string and the
ascii codes that make up that string.  Translate is capable of going both
ways (from characters to numbers or from numbers to characters), and can
express values in either decimal or hex.  Translate is also capable of
taking it's input from a text file.

Translate is used as follows:

C:\tran Hello There

This would produce the following output:

72 101 108 108 111 32 84 104 101 114 101

Please note that, when given text on the command line tail, Translate cannot
distinguish one whitespace character from another.  Thus, even if words are
separated with tabs, Translate will return ascii code 32 (a space) between
words.  To avoid this, Translate may take its input from a text file.

C:\tran -f myfile.txt

This would translate every line in myfile.txt.  Codes 13 and 10 (carriage
return and line feed) will not appear at the end of every line.

To convert from ascii values to a string, use the "-r" option:

C:\tran -r 72 101 108 108 111 32 84 104 101 114 101

This would produce the following output:

Hello There

The two options may be combined (tran -rf somefile.txt).

The third option available is the ability to display values in hexadecimal
notation.  When using this option ("-h") in combination with "-r", make
sure you precede each number with a "$" (eg $6D or $5e).

Tran is ShareWare.  If you use it often, please register it by sending
$10 to the address below.  Registration will entitle you to this and all
future versions of both the Windows and DOS versions of Translate (mailed
to you if you send me a disk and postage) and free technical support.

Erick Hammersmark
18540 1/2 Densmore Ave N
Seattle, WA   98133

Although this is the initial release of Translate for DOS, it is numbered
version .05 to correspond with the older Windows product sharing the same
name (and, oddly enough, the same function!).

Version history:

.04 : initial release of DOS version.

.05 : maintenance release of Windows version.

Plans for the future:

Memory resident pop-up version.

If you have any problems, questions, complaints, praises, etc., please
direct them to me, Erick Hammersmark.  I can be reached through US mail
at the address above, or through Internet E-Mail at
ehammers@u.washington.edu.  Feel free to drop me a line wether you are
registered or not.