Re: octal dump

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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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