freebsd-ports/converters/ish/pkg-descr
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino bf42d1953b a port for "ish binary-to-text file converter".
The tool is famous in Japanese local BBSes, but may useful for other situations.

Reviewed by:	itojun@itojun.org
Submitted by:	hosokawa@freebsd.org
1997-08-16 05:14:07 +00:00

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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.