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morsegen(1)

morsegen1

Convert file to ascii morse code

Usage

morsegen <file>

Overview

This program implements the International Morse Code Standard by converting ASCII text file into morse code ASCII notation.

Morse code was created for the telegraph in the early 1840s. Morse code uses a standardized sequence of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message.

The morse code standard does not define all characters in ASCII table therefore translation of file into morse notation is only an approximation. The following special translation have been used:

    ASCII           Morse prosign
    ------------    ------------------
    ' ' (space)     Invitation to transmit
    \t              Starting signal
    \r              Wait
    \n              End of work

Options

None.

Environment

None.

Files

None.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)

Standards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

Authors

Program was written by Luigiru Auriemma <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.

From morsegen 0.2.1-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.