On 11/17/08 10:54, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained
using od. But two questions cropped up:
1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text
files?!
Nowadays? Hardly ever, if at all. But the PDP-7, which Unix was
created on, was an 18-bit system, which is divisible by 3, which is
how many bits an octal number represents.
> And when people say they use octal (or hex) dump to check
> and edit binary files, how do they learn to do so?
????
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