Hi there, On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 David F. Skoll wrote:
> > Are there any similar programmes in Linux? > > Sure. od. less. vim. emacs. Take your pick. Linux is not subject > to the brain-deadedness of Windoze and to a lesser extend MacOS. You didn't forget, I know, but you didn't mention my favourite - hexdump. You can do all sorts of cool things with a format file... hexdump -f format_file file_to_dump | less I like to see the binary and the ASCII equivalent, so I wrote my favourite three-line format_file: 8<--------------------------- "%06.6_ax " 16/1 "%02x " "\t" "%_p" "\n" 8<--------------------------- Incidentally, for 20+ years my business has refused to accept the return of storage media from customers if the packaging has been opened, unless it can be shown to be defective. The packaging is marked with a note to that effect before it is sold. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html