ASCII85(1)

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👑 ASCII85 — the manual page, but make it cute 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to ascii85(1) — yes that's the section 1 manual page, we're in the big leagues now ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ascii85 — encodes or decodes files using the Ascii85 ruby library 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ascii85 [OPTIONS] FILES

that's it. that's the whole vibe. OPTIONS first, then FILES, periodt 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so Ascii85 — which also goes by the name "Base85", she contains multitudes — is a form of binary-to-text encoding. and the way that she's mainly used?? in Adobe's PostScript and PDF format. iconic behavior honestly 🔥

ascii85 is a command line utility, and she is modeled after base64(1) from the GNU coreutils. like, that's her blueprint, her inspo, her main character origin story 💖

what does she do? she can encode text files to Ascii85, or decode Ascii85 files back to text, and then she prints the result to the standard output. slay 🌈

and if no file is given on the command line? no problem bestie, ascii85 just reads from the standard input instead. she's flexible like that 🫶

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -w, --wrap COLUMN — wrap lines at COLUMN. default is 80, and if you want no wrapping at all, use 0. zero means none, no cap 🧚
  • -d, --decode — decode the input. (flip the script, reverse the vibe 🔄)
  • -h, --help — display a usage message and exit. the classic "help me help you" moment 🙈
  • --version — output version information ⭐

💜 AUTHORS 💜

ascii85</p> has been developed by Johannes Holzfuß. give her creator their flowers, they earned them 👑

and this manual page has been written for the Debian Project by Cédric Boutillier (but may be used by others). so like, it's Debian's, but she shares 🫶

💀 heads up bestie: the manpage itself gives no warnings about this utility, so there's nothing scary to flag here — just don't go wrapping at negative columns or whatever, that's not in the docs and I'm not making stuff up 💖

and that's the whole page!! written 2025-11-20, and it's the ASCII85(1) manual page, mwah 😘 go encode something cute 🎀✨

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