NAME
cif2cbf - convert a CIF to a CBF file
SYNOPSIS
cif2cbf [options]
DESCRIPTION
cif2cbf is a program that accepts either a CIF or a CBF as input and
outputs a CBF file.
OPTIONS
-i input_cif
(default: stdin) the input file in CIF or CBF format. If
input_cif is not specified or is given as "-", it is copied from
stdin to a temporary file.
-o output_cbf
(default: stdout) the output cif (if base64 or quoted-printable
encoding is used) or cbf (if no encoding is used). if no
output_cif is specified or is given as "-", the output is
written to stdout if the output_cbf is /dev/null, no output is
written.
The remaining options specify the characteristics of the output cbf.
The characteristics of the input cif are derived from context.
-c compression_scheme
(packed, canonical, byte_offset, v2packed, flatpacked or none,
default packed)
-m [no]headers
(default headers for cifs, noheaders for cbfs) selects MIME (N.
Freed, N. Borenstein, RFC 2045, November 1996) headers within
binary data value text fields.
-d [no]digest
(default md5 digest [R. Rivest, RFC 1321, April 1992 using"RSA
Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm"] when MIME
headers are selected)
-e encoding
(base64, quoted-printable or none, default base64) specifies one
of the standard MIME encodings for an ascii cif or "none" for a
binary cbf
-b byte_order
(forward or backwards, default forward (1234) on little-endian
machines, backwards (4321) on big-endian machines
-p K_of_padding
(0, 1, 2, 4) for no padding after binary data 1023, 2047 or 4095
bytes of padding after binary data
-v dictionary
specifies a dictionary to be used to validate the input cif and
to apply aliases to the output cif. This option may be
specified multiple times, with dictionaries layered in the order
given.
-w process wide (2048 character) lines
SEE ALSO
convert_image(1), img2cif(1), makecbf(1).
AUTHOR
cif2cbf was written by Herbert J. Bernstein.
This manual page was written by Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@bioxray.au.dk>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
April 2008