---
name: "cyclist"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cyclist"
version: "0.2~beta3-5"
release: "Debian 11 (Bullseye)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cyclist"
---

# cyclist(1)

convert Max/MSP binary files to text file format

## NAME

cyclist - convert Max/MSP binary files to text file format

## SYNOPSIS

**cyclist** \[*FILE*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **cyclist** command.

**cyclist** is a program that converts the Cycling '74 Max/MSP .mxb file format to the maxv2 .pat or .mxt file format.  It reads the file name as the first argument and then dumps the resulting text to stdout.

## AUTHOR

cyclist was written by Krzysztof Czaja \<czaja@chopin.edu.pl\>.

This manual page was written by Hans-Christoph Steiner \<hans@eds.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).