NAME

       raconvert - convert comma-separated ASCII argus(8) data, to binary argus(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 character, 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 raconvert 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)