question about binary and serial info

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-08-18, nephish at xit.net <nephish at xit.net> wrote:

> i got the bitwise part, i just cant seem to convert the
> incomming ascii into hex, binary, integer, or decimal.

So you've got an ASCII string in one format and you want to
convert into an ASCII string in a different format?  

For example you want to convert the string "FF" into the string "255"?

> how do i do this, my serial port bytes just come in all weird
> looking ascii characters

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