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Offline rms46

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Suggested way to convert Binary to ASCII
« on: March 12, 2014, 07:13:09 AM »
Hi,
It seems that both base64 and uu*code are disabled in busybox.
May I know, what is the suggested/default way in TC to convert
binary to ASCII?

Thank you.
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Re: Suggested way to convert Binary to ASCII
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2014, 10:37:43 AM »
Hi Rahmat
Maybe  hexdump  from  util-linux.tcz ?

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Re: Suggested way to convert Binary to ASCII
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2014, 10:45:01 AM »
Hi Rahmat
Sorry, you ask for ASCII.
uuencode  is in  sharutils.tcz
base64  is in  coreutils.tcz

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Re: Suggested way to convert Binary to ASCII
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2014, 12:17:09 PM »
I'd always keep a statically linked busybox as provided by upstream around - which appears to be compiled with 'make defconfig' - to compensate for any applets missing in Core's busybox at any given moment. 
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