NAME¶

morsegen - convert file to ASCII morse code

SYNOPSIS¶

  morsegen <file>

DESCRIPTION¶

This program implements the International Morse Code Standard byconverting ASCII text file into morse code ASCII notation.

Morse code was created for the telegraph in the early 1840s. Morsecode uses a standardized sequence of short and long elements torepresent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special charactersof a given message.

The morse code standard does not define all characters in ASCII tabletherefore translation of file into morse notation is only anapproximation. The following special translation have been used:

    ASCII           Morse prosign
    ------------    ------------------
    ' ' (space)     Invitation to transmit
    \t              Starting signal
    \r              Wait
    \n              End of work

OPTIONS¶

None.

ENVIRONMENT¶

None.

FILES¶

None.

SEE ALSO¶

cw(1) cwgen(1) qrq(1)

STANDARDS¶

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

AUTHORS¶

Program was written by Luigiru Auriemma <aluigi@autistici.org>.

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> forthe Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released underlicense GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. Formore information about license, visit<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.