fst-text2bin(1)

📦 version 1.7.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 fst-text2bin(1) — the glow-up from text to binary 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because fst-text2bin is literally the moment your cute lil text transducer gets its ✨binary era✨. it's a manual page, it's a vibe, it's giving "i know exactly what i'm doing" energy. let's go 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

fst-text2bin — converts a transducer from its text form to binary format

like. that's the whole job. it takes your readable text-y transducer and turns it into the binary glow-up version. iconic behavior honestly 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fst-text2bin text-file bin-file

two args, no drama: text-file goes in, bin-file comes out. slay 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — prints usage information. that's it. that's the whole option list. one flag, no notes, and honestly? respect 🫶

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: fst-text2bin is a tool that reads a transducer which was stored in text form from the input file, and writes it in the binary format to the output file. reading in, writing out, main character pipeline fr fr 🔥

and now the important compatibility lore, because this is where people get confused and i refuse to let that be you:

  • the input format is identical to the output format of the fst-print command — so if fst-print made it, this tool eats it. periodt.
  • the output format is equivalent to the standard output format of the fst-compiler program — same energy, different tool. 😌
  • and if binary is a whole spectrum and you want a different flavor of binary? the programs fst-compact and fst-lowmem can be used to produce the other binary transducer formats. so there's options, there's range, there's choices. 💖
lowkey the whole point is: text in → binary out, and the binary matches what fst-compiler spits out. no cap.

💀 BUGS 💀

No bugs are known so far.

not one. zero. the audacity of this program to simply work 😭 we love a clean record, bestie. (still, you know how it is — "known" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, but that's what the page says and i'm not about to invent problems. 🙈)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go hang out with the rest of the fam, they're all part of the same friend group:

  • fst-compiler
  • fst-print
  • fst-compact
  • fst-lowmem

iykyk 💫

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Helmut Schmid, Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart Email: schmid@ims.uni-stuttgart.de This software is available under the GNU Public License.

giving scholar energy, giving license compliance, giving "credit where credit is due" 🎓💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no crumbs left, every flag, every file, every format note, every see-also — all accounted for 🧚‍♀️ this little manual page is dated June 2007 and it's the fst-text2bin(1) page, so shoutout to that era for giving us this absolute staple. go convert something gorgeous. mwah 💅✨🍓

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