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.TH ASCII85 1 2024-04-13 "" ""
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.SH NAME
ascii85 \- encodes or decodes files using Ascii85 ruby library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBascii85\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fIFILES\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
Ascii85 (also called "Base85") is a form of binary-to-text encoding, which is
mainly used in Adobe's PostScript and PDF format.
.PP
\&\fBascii85\fR is a command line utility, modeled after \fBbase64\fR\|(1) from the GNU
coreutils, can encode text files to Ascii85 or decode Ascii85 files to text,
and then print the result to the standard output.
.PP
If no file is given on the command line, \fBascii85\fR reads from the standard input.
.SH OPTIONS
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP "\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-wrap\fR COLUMN" 4
.IX Item "-w, --wrap COLUMN"
Wrap lines at COLUMN. Default is 80, use 0 for no wrapping
.IP "\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-decode\fR" 4
.IX Item "-d, --decode"
Decode the input
.IP "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR" 4
.IX Item "-h, --help"
Display a usage message and exit
.IP \fB\-\-version\fR 4
.IX Item "--version"
Output version information
.SH AUTHORS
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
\&\fBascii85\fR has been developed by Johannes Holzfuß.
.PP
This manual page has been written for the Debian Project by Cédric Boutillier (but
may used by others).