On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:00:34AM +0100, Michael Piefel wrote: > 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. Richard Braakman