On Monday 17 November 2008, "Girish Kulkarni" <girish@hri.res.in> 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 hex(adecimal). (For interpreting numbers written as hex.) -- Wikipedia for a start. 2) Learn the hex codes for ASCII control (and other non-printing) characters. -- Wikipedia probably has some information. 3) Learn the binary format they are trying to edit. -- A standard or other documentation specific to the format. It's really only useful in that it is a fairly universal tool, and doesn't require complex programs. It's much better to edit/view in a tool with specific support for that binary format. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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