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| author | zuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +0000 |
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| committer | zuntum <zuntum@pkgsrc.org> | 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +0000 |
| commit | 273821c4d377411699fe450ab9d48f7e5933d9b6 (patch) | |
| tree | b8174b07e5f6072d89e0ac6466ae83197944712f /converters/ish/DESCR | |
| parent | d8ed248248754208ebf0c3a07f7a0847af2e838a (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-273821c4d377411699fe450ab9d48f7e5933d9b6.tar.gz | |
Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory
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diff --git a/converters/ish/DESCR b/converters/ish/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..667abdefb7b --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/ish/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +ish is a format to encode binary files to text file, or decode text +files into binary file. ish has strong error correction/detection +functionality using CRC and checksum. +This format is popular in Japanese BBS'es. + +To non-Japanese people: + To produce non-Japanese text a user should use "-s7" option. + Other options such as "-ss" may produce Japanese text. +To Japanese people: + To use ish over NetNews newsgroups (such as fj.*), use "-s7" option. + Use of "-ss" will not give you the optimal performance. + "-ss" option is just for BBSes that use Shift-JIS as their native + Japanese encoding. |