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### 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

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