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The tool is famous in Japanese local BBSes, but may useful for other situations. Reviewed by: itojun@itojun.org Submitted by: hosokawa@freebsd.org
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ish is a format to encode binary files to text file, or decode text
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files into binary file. ish has strong error correction/detection
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functionality using CRC and checksum.
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This format is popular in Japanese BBS'es.
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To non-Japanese people:
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To produce non-Japanese text a user should use "-s7" option.
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Other options such as "-ss" may produce Japanese text.
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To Japanese people:
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To use ish over NetNews newsgroups (such as fj.*), use "-s7" option.
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Use of "-ss" will not give you the optimal performance.
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"-ss" option is just for BBSes that use Shift-JIS as their native
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Japanese encoding.
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