EA_TRANSPOSE(1)

✨ NAME ✨

ea_transpose — bestie, it computes the transpose of the restart matrix. that's the whole job. that's the assignment. and yes, this is the page for EA_TRANSPOSE(1) 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ea_transpose [-v] [-l <index>] <file> <outfile>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: you hand ea_transpose a <file>, it computes the transpose of the restart matrix of that file, and it outputs the whole thing to <outfile>. that's it. that's the plot. 🌸

here's the flag lineup, no cap:

• -v — increase verbosity. more talking. more lore. slay ✨
• -l <index> — read the <index> substring of 1000000 samples. yeah, one million. iconic. 👑
• <file> — a file with (blocks of) 1000 sets of restart data, where each set is 1000 samples. the result gets saved in <file>.column. this program computes the transpose of the restart matrix and produces column data appropriate testing with the other tools. this helps to support the testing described in SP800-90B Section 3.1.2 #3. 🫶
• --version — prints tool version information. simple. clean. periodt. 💜

not me being dramatic about a transpose function but like... the matrix is literally getting flipped, bestie. main character energy fr fr. 🙈

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

disclaimer time, and ngl you should actually read this one, it's giving very real. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this is ea_transpose version 1.1.5, dated April 2023 — go forth and transpose responsibly, mwah 💖✨🎀