On 11/22/08 06:14, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
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Thanks for the replies Ron, Mike and others. I guess I understand use
of od now (although that du puzzle is still with me).
From the top of the man page DESCRIPTION:
"Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories."
The 2nd arg
On 11/18/08 18:44, mike wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/18/08 05:50, mike wrote:
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
fil
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/18/08 05:50, mike wrote:
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?! And when people say they u
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
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On 11/18/08 05:50, mike wrote:
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?! And when people say they use octal (or hex) du
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?! And when people say they use octal (or hex) dump to check
and edit binary f
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: octal dump
>Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:24:49 +0530
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained
>>us
On Monday 17 November 2008, "Girish Kulkarni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
about 'octal dump':
>1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text
> files?! And when people say they use octal (or hex) dump to check
> and edit binary files, how do they learn to do so?
1) Learn h
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 U
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:24:49PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
>-Ad'. But I find that the offset of the last line does not match
>with the size of the file given by 'du -h'. Why is that?
du shows disk usage, which can be different from the size of a file
due to the block size of the fi
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