A collection of small programs to deal with bits and bytes in a variety of ways.
bitcount is a small C application to count the bits (zeroes and ones) of an input stream such as a file. It displays statistical data such as the longest consecutive string of 0s and 1s, as well as the overall 0:1 ratio for the input.
Like bitcount, bytecount collects and displays some byte-level heuristics about an input file, such as number of occurances of each byte (0x00 - 0xFF) and number of unique bytes.
bitcat is a small C application to print the stream of bits comprising an input such as a file. It can print in 8-bit (1-byte) columns or unseparated stream of bits, and can output either "01" or ".-" (Morse Code) output.
bwrite is a small C application to write a single byte, by its decimal integer value (0-255) into a file. It asks the user for the decimal integer value of the byte to write, and can either write a new file or append the single byte to an existing file with the '-a' option.
int2file uses the GMP library to read a decimal integer from stdin and write the integer as binary to an output file. This is meant to act as a proof-of-concept that in fact all computer files may in fact be represented as a single number. It may also be used to convert numbers to files, such as the Illegal Prime
file2int reads the file specified on the command line and prints it to STDOUT. It accepts an optional command line argument to represent the numeric base which can range from 2-62 (default 10).
b2flop calculates the height of a stack of DOS-formatted floppy disks required to store N bytes.