Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > My dad started a new project at work, which they will be using Linux for. He > came to me and asked me if Linux had a program to convert a binary stream to > ASCII characters. A co-worker of his told him that UNIX had a native utility > to do this (but he couldn't recall the name). What might this be (or what is > a program that could do this)? > > Thanks, > Cameron Matheson > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are probably looking for od (Octal Dump). Its been part of *nix for ages and will dump in a lot of formats depending on the options you give it - have a look at the man page. Happy hacking, \Gandalf
