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RACONVERT(1)		    General Commands Manual		  RACONVERT(1)

NAME
       raconvert  - convert comma-separated ASCII argus(8) data, to binary ar-
       gus(8) data.

SYNOPSIS
       raconvert -r input -w output

DESCRIPTION
       Raconvert reads comman separated	ASCII argus data from a	file or	stdin,
       and converts the	ASCII representation to	binary format.	In  order  for
       raconver	 to  process  the delimited data correctly, the	file should be
       created by ra.1 like programs, using the	"-c <char>" option to  specify
       a  field	separator.  Column delimiters can be any non-ambiguous charac-
       ter, and	are automatically discovered from the files title string.

       Because raconvert.1 expects the first valid string in the file to be  a
       ra.1 column title line, the ra.1	program	must use the equivalent	of the
       "-L 0" option.

       The  file can present its column	oriented data in any order, and	racon-
       vert will accomodate.  Duplicate	columns	on the same line are  allowed,
       but  the	 final	value  in  the resulting argus record with be the last
       value encountered.

       raconvert.1 can read gzip and bzip2 compressed files, based on the file
       extension.

USES
       Raconvert is predominately used for reading ASCII  represented  archive
       data.   Argus  data  is routinely converted to ASCII for	inspection and
       archiving, due to the good compressibility offered by gzip and  others.
       Argus  data  is also converted from binary to ASCII and back to binary,
       as a routine process to enforce content policies.  The conversion, with
       ASCII inspection	ensures	that specific data of interest isn't leaked.

INVOCATION
       ra -L0 c	, -r argusfile > argus.ascii.csv
       raconvert -r argus.ascii.csv -w argusfile

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2000-2016 QoSient.	All rights reserved.

SEE ALSO
       ra(1), rarc(5), argus(8),

FILES
AUTHORS
       Carter Bullard (carter@qosient.com).

BUGS
raconvert 3.0.8			07 October 2003			  RACONVERT(1)

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