Kent, Kent A. Reed wrote: > Gentle persons: > > Almost as soon as the Unix coding began at Bell Labs nearly 40 years > ago, there arose a need for to examine the contents of various files, > for example, because there were as many different character encoding > schemes as there were computer manufacturers in those days. > > The primitive but powerful utility program "od" (for "octal dump") was > created for this purpose. I've found it in every distribution of > Unix/Linux I've ever used and I highly recommend using it to examine any > questionable file. You can find out instantly if questionable character > coding exists in your file. Use "man od" to get specifics. > > Regards, > Kent > > > yes, i would reccommend using some bin editor/hex dump but was unfamiliar with od i might suggest using 'mc' ( midnight commander) and 'viewing the file and changing from ascii to hex the left window woud be hex the right window woud be ascii ( if possible ) any 'goofy' characters could be spotted and the reason why
mc may not be a real programmers tool but it gets this job done best of luck tomp > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
