fst-text2bin.1
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.TH fst-text2bin 1 "June 2007" "" "fst-text2bin"
.SH NAME
fst-text2bin \- converts a transducer from its text form to binary format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fst-text2bin
.I text-file
.I bin-file
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-h
Print usage information.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fst-text2bin
is a tool which reads a transducer which was stored in text form from the input file and write it in the binary format to the output file. The input format is identical to the output format of the
.I fst-print
command. The output format is equivalent to the standard output format of the
.I fst-compiler
program. The programs
.I fst-compact
and
.I fst-lowmem
can be used to produce the other binary transducer formats.
.SH BUGS
No bugs are known so far.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
fst-compiler, fst-print, fst-compact, fst-lowmem
.SH AUTHOR
Helmut Schmid,
Institute for Computational Linguistics,
University of Stuttgart,
Email: schmid@ims.uni-stuttgart.de,
This software is available under the GNU Public License.