morsegen(1)

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version 0.2.1 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

💌 morsegen — bestie edition 💌

okay so this is a User Commands girlie, manual name morsegen, and she is so simple and so iconic. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

morsegen — turns a file into ASCII morse code, no cap 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

morsegen <file>

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one argument, one dream 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so listen. this program implements the International Morse Code Standard by taking an ASCII text file and converting it into morse code ASCII notation. literally that's her job and she ate 🔥

morse code was created for the telegraph in the early 1840s (yes, the 1840s, she's been serving looks for centuries 👑). morse code uses a standardized sequence of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message. so like, dots and dashes, but make it history.

now here's the tea ☕ — the morse code standard does not define all characters in the ASCII table. so the translation of a file into morse notation is only an approximation. bestie, it's giving "close enough" 😭

the following special translations have been used:

  • ' ' (space) — Invitation to transmit
  • \t — Starting signal
  • \r — Wait
  • \n — End of work

so yeah, whitespace is doing main character energy in this house and honestly? respect 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

None. zero. nada. she has no flags, she needs no flags. unbothered, moisturized, in her lane 💅✨

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

None. no environment variables, no sneaky little settings. clean girl aesthetic 🧚

🎀 FILES 🎀

None. she doesn't read config files, she doesn't write state, she just converts and leaves. a queen who doesn't overstay 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go say hi to the cousins, they're all in the same morse-adjacent friend group 💖

⭐ STANDARDS ⭐

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

(the lore, the history, the source material — go read it, iykyk 📖✨)

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

the program was written by Luigiru Auriemma <aluigi@autistici.org>. thank you for your service legend 🫡💖

this manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> 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>. legal girlies stay winning ⚖️✨

so yeah, that's morsegen(1) in all her glory from 2022-01-18, version morsegen — be normal about her, use her well, and remember: dots and dashes are just letters with extra steps 💀💖 mwah, bye bestie! 🎀🌈🦋
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