From 797066812fea488210d4e43fa6c7ee97c08fd0f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:30:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document decryption support in pspp-convert. Reported by tylar . --- doc/pspp-convert.texi | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/pspp-convert.texi b/doc/pspp-convert.texi index 350fc9b0cd..838f81167c 100644 --- a/doc/pspp-convert.texi +++ b/doc/pspp-convert.texi @@ -40,12 +40,18 @@ SPSS system file. SPSS portable file. @end table +As a special case of format conversion, @command{pspp-convert} can +decrypt an encrypted SPSS system file. Specify the encrypted file as +@var{input}. The output will be the equivalent plaintext SPSS system +file. You will be prompted for the password (or use @option{-p}, +documented below). + Use @code{-O @var{extension}} to override the inferred format or to specify the format for unrecognized extensions. The following options are accepted: -@table @code +@table @option @item -O @var{format} @itemx --output-format=@var{format} Specifies the desired output format. @var{format} must be one of the @@ -64,6 +70,15 @@ Overrides the encoding in which character strings in @var{input} are interpreted. This option is necessary because old SPSS system files, and SPSS/PC+ system files, do not self-identify their encoding. +@item -p @var{password} +@item --password=@var{password} +Specifies the password to use to decrypt an encrypted SPSS system +file. If this option is not specified, @command{pspp-convert} will +prompt interactively for the password as necessary. + +Be aware that command-line options, including passwords, may be +visible to other users on multiuser systems. + @item -h @itemx --help Prints a usage message on stdout and exits. -- 2.30.2