37.3.5 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 37-1 shows the options for these additional switches.

Table 37-1 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 §37.7.1 DCL file structure
dcl	Intermediate Document Coding Language ASCII format; see §37.7.1 DCL file structure
htm	HTML, HTML-based Help, XML
inf	Intermediate document information format; see §37.4.1 Creating a document information file
lst	Mif2Go-generated list file; see §C.2.3 Additional conversion files.
mif	Maker Interchange Format (FrameMaker)
rtf	Rich Text Format
XML	DITA, DocBook, generic XML

---

> 37 Converting via DCL > 37.3 DCL command-line syntax > 37.3.5 Additional command-line switches