45.3.5 Additional command-line switches

Additional switches are available for DCL. You would need these only for working with intermediate DCL input and output formats:

dcl [-ab] [-lm] [-s source] [–t target]

Table 45-1 shows the options for these additional switches.

Table 45-1 DCL intermediate input and output options

Switches

Purpose

Value

Description

[-ab]

Type of DCL output file

-a

ASCII

-b

Binary

[-lm]

Endianness of input files

-l

Little-endian (Intel)

-m

Big-endian

[-s source]

Type of input file

-s

dcl, dcb, mif, lst, or xml

[-t target]

Type of output file

-t

dcl, dcb, inf, rtf, htm, or xml

Types of input or output files for switches -s and -t:  

dcb

Intermediate Document Coding Language binary format; see §45.5.1 DCL file structure

dcl

Intermediate Document Coding Language ASCII format; see §45.5.1 DCL file structure

htm

HTML, HTML-based Help, XML

rtf

Rich Text Format

XML

DITA, DocBook, generic XML

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