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+.TH EM_DECODE VI
+.ad
+.SH NAME
+em_decode,em_encode \- compact to readable EM and v.v.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+/usr/em/lib/em_decode [ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
+.br
+/usr/em/lib/em_encode [ inputfile [ outputfile ] ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Most programs involved with the EM project only produce and accept
+EM programs in compact form.
+These files are only machine readable.
+A description of this compact form can be found in [1].
+To inspect the code produced by compilers or to patch them for one reason
+or another, you need human readable assembly code.
+Em_decode will do the job for you.
+.PP
+Em_decode accepts the normal compact form in both optimized and
+unoptimized form
+.PP
+Sometimes you have to make some special routines directly
+in EM, for instance the routines implementing the system calls.
+At these times you may use em_encode to produce compact routines
+out of these human readable assembly modules.
+.PP
+The first argument is the input file.
+The second argument is the output file.
+Both programs can act as a filter.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IP [1]
+A.S.Tanenbaum, Ed Keizer, Hans van Staveren & J.W.Stevenson
+"Description of a machine architecture for use of
+block structured languages" Informatica rapport IR-81.
+.IP [2]
+ack(I)
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+Error messages are intended to be self-explanatory.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Johan Stevenson, Vrije Universiteit.