August 2011, Daniel Gibson

This code solves the problem of wanting to convert ASCII characters to Binary in order to inject them into another program that needs binary by way of linux/UNIX pipes.  Two programs were created txttobin using C++ and bintotxt using python.  The two different languages were used to illustrate coding differences, but work essentially the same.

Using Piping with the txttobin command:

1.  echo '2' | ./txttobin

2.  cat two | ./txttobin  - where two is a file containing '2'.

3.  ./txttobin < two  - where two is a file containing '2'.

4.  echo '44414e' | ./txttobin | more - prints 'DAN' to the screen. ***