does it have to be hex (mac format??)?
uudeview is a neat tool that can also do this but has a lot of extra features that can be quite handy: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ you may even be able to 'apt-get install uudeview' to install it. From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Coats Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 18:25 To: NLUG Subject: [nlug] text to binary to text command line utility I thought I remembered a unix utility that would convert a binary file to a text file in 'hex' format, typically to allow emailing a binary. And the corresponding decoding utility to re-build the binary from the text. I can't seem to remember the commands or at least can't seem to find them on my Ubuntu 8.04 system. ><> ... Jack --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
