viewing ascii

[Jeff Hagstrom]

What can I use to view a text file on the unix box that shows the hexidecimal and ascii codes?
or is there something that i can use in windows that would show it

[Court Campbell]

try emacs. I believe it has a hex mode. I hae not used it personally but have seen it used.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Editors/emacs-21.4/

[OldSchool]

or

"xd -vc "

hex dump, -v = all lines, -c = show printable characters

man xd for more

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The standard commands xd and od will do this for you. Man xd and od for details. A very nice utility is hexedit.

http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/hexedit-1.2.10/

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Jeff:

In addition to the fact that you can select the type of output shown by 'xd' (or 'od') [i.e. a character, octal, hexadecimal, etc.] you might find the manpages for 'ascii(5)' a useful companion reference. For that matter, see '/usr/share/lib/pub/ascii'.

In reality, 'xd' and 'od' are the same binary. They are a nice example of Unix's use of hard links. By naming the links differently, the default output can be automatically selected to be either octal ('od') or hexadecimal ('xd').

See the manpages for 'xd' (or 'od' --- it's the same) for output options.

Regards!

...JRF...