---
name: "convickt"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "intercal"
version: "30:0.30-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/convickt"
---

# convickt(1)

convert INTERCAL files between formats

## NAME

convickt - convert INTERCAL files between formats

## SYNOPSIS

**convickt** *incharset outcharset \[paddingrule \[arrayname\]\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page describes the **convickt** command. Fuller documentation is available via the command **info convickt**

**convickt** converts INTERCAL programs from one character set to another; it takes input from standard input and sends its output to standard output.

## OPTIONS

For *incharset* and *outcharset*

- **atari**

  Interpret the input as being ASCII-7 Atari syntax INTERCAL, as is used by the Atari INTERCAL-72 compiler, J-INTERCAL, and C-INTERCAL default syntax, or output in that syntax.

- **baudot**

  Interpret the input as being in CLC-INTERCAL's extended Baudot syntax, or output in that syntax.

- **ebcdic**

  Interpret the input as being in the CLC-INTERCAL dialect of EBCDIC, or output in that syntax.

- **latin1**

  Interpret the input as being Latin-1 Princeton syntax INTERCAL, as is used by default by CLC-INTERCAL and also readable by C-INTERCAL with the **-X** switch, or output in that syntax.

For *paddingrule*

- **zero**

  Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with zeros.

- **printable**

  Set the values of the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output to try to cause the output to stay within character range 32-126. This option is the default. (Note that *paddingrule* is irrelevant for 8-bit character sets like Latin-1 and EBCDIC).

- **random**

  Pad the irrelevant bits in ASCII-7 and Baudot output with random data, except that outputing an all-bits-zero octet is avoided.

## CAVEATS

Not all conversions are possible, due to the character sets having different characters available. In most cases, an unconvertible or invalid character will be converted to a 0 (padded appropriately); the exception is that if a tab cannot be converted, it will instead be converted to a single space (so that INTERCAL programs still run if converted to Baudot). Using **atari** as an input or output character set will literally convert characters which differ between Atari and Princeton syntax without checking to see whether they are being used as operators or not.

If *arrayname* is given, then instead of outputting the converted text literally, it will be output as portable (that is, legal in INTERCAL-72, C-INTERCAL, J-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL) INTERCAL that dimensions the tail array given as *arrayname* and assigns each byte of the output to an element of that array; this is mostly useful for producing Baudot text for CLC-INTERCAL-style array IO.

## AUTHOR

**convickt** and this manual page were written by Alex Smith.