CCP is a versatile software tool that copies stdin or file to stdout, file to file, or multiple files to a directory, with the added functionality of recursive copying of directories.
Users can easily write recoding tables as text files, which can be transformed into binary form by CCP. Binary files are smaller and load faster than text files. The software can multiply recordings, which produces a table as several recordings applied sequentially that are not commutative in nature.
The base distribution CCP contains recoding tables for converting DOS text files to Unix text files and back, conversions between Russian encoding koi8-r, alt (cp866), win (cp1251), iso-8859-5, LaTeX (T2A) in any direction, for converting these encodings to transliteration and filtering out control characters.
Some common examples of use include converting DOS text files to UNIX text files, converting DOS Russian text in alt to UNIX Russian text in koi8, and converting UNIX Russian text in koi8 to Windows Russian text. Users can create new recoding tables with an easily writable syntax as shown in the example provided in the review.
CCP allows several options to be combined, which can be useful for complex copying tasks. Users can also specify the list of directories containing recoding tables via the environment variable CCPPATH.
Overall, CCP is a helpful software with various copying options and an easy-to-use recoding table syntax, making it a useful tool for those dealing with different text file encodings.
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