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                                         CIF2CBF(1)