octal dump

["Girish Kulkarni" <girish@hri.res.in>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> In my work I collect a lot of data from the serial port, spit out by
> other machines.  od is VERY useful when I collect data from a new
> machine.  Are there carriage returns? Are there other strange
> characters?.... After those questions are answered it's much easier
> to parse the data and do stuff with it.

Thanks for the replies Ron, Mike and others.  I guess I understand use
of od now (although that du puzzle is still with me).

Girish.

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