In article alpine.WNT.2.21.999.2105031309220.15596@dhcp3-6,
says...

We can save ASCII and binrary files on a disk. Saving is much faster with
binary files but their format is undocumented.

Has anybody a converter for binary to ASCII?

You only have to Google! I did, thinking that it would remind me of one
I used to be familiar with decards ago, but it didn't!