Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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
Sure. ftp any text file from a Windows or Mac using binary mode. od -c that file, and you'll be enlightened. > files?! And when people say they use octal (or hex) dump to check > and edit binary files, how do they learn to do so? I used to work with seismic data, and dumping a field tape in hex to paper was the simplest way to figure out what recording format they used. SEG-A, -B, -C. This was in the '70s. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
