Hi! > > What is the purpose of this package? What can this utility do what > > hexdump from bsdmainutils can't already? > > Heh, see also hextype (which I maintain). Its reasons for existing > are that the corresponding hexdump invocation would fill a whole > line, and that hextype is about ten times faster. I don't know > how hexcat compares. The reason why I wrote hexcat was that hextype and od, etc. couldn't dump the files the way I wanted it: i.e. 4-byte columns with 16-byte ascii display on the side (The closest was hexdump -C, but still not what I want and as Richard mention, hexdump is not the fastest around - not sure about od). If you frequently dump binary images and search for strings you come to appreciate the small things. -- Regards Abraham Never trust an automatic pistol or a D.A.'s deal. -- John Dillinger ___________________________________________________ Abraham vd Merwe [ZR1BBQ] - The Debian Project P.O. Box 3472, Matieland, Stellenbosch, 7602 Cell: +27 82 565 4451 Email: abz@debian.org Http: http://people.debian.org/~abz/
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