NAME

       morsegen - convert file to ASCII morse code

SYNOPSIS

         morsegen <file>

DESCRIPTION

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

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

       The morse code standard does not define all characters in ASCII table therefore
       translation of file into morse notation is only an approximation. 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> for the Debian GNU
       system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your
       option) any later version. For more information about license, visit
       <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.