Viewing text in Hex

[Karla Robinson]

Is there a way to view specific text contained in a file in Hex format?

[Mel Burslan]

I am not sure if there is any equivalent available on the regular system distribution but from the "hpux public domain software porting archives" (mouthful isn't it?) you can get the hexedit package and use it. It can be found at :

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/hexedit-0.9.7/

both 10.20 and 11.00 compiled versions are available from this page.

Hope this helps

[Karla Robinson]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

[Rodney Hills]

How about the "xd" command. It can't modify, but can view.

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You can simply do an od -tx myfile | pg although hexedit will be an easier to use interface once you get it installed.

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi,

You can install gvim for HP-UX, see link below:
http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-6.1/

then, if you edit the text file with gvim editor you can switch between, hex view and normal text view with the command
:%!xxd and :%!xxd -r

Frank.

[Dave La Mar]

Karla -

Our shop uses a product called
Ultraedit. It is a very, very (+/- $30.00 USA) inexpensive text editor that allows viewing in hex. It also has the ability to open and save files via ftp.
For developers that abhor vi or are just inepdt, it provides a good alternatative ( I said good, not great, Forumers) to vi.

Best of luck.
dl

[Kyri Pilavakis]

In very rear occassions that I need to use it....a file can be displayed in one or more formats by using the od (octal dump) command. If no file name is specified, the standard input is used:

od [ -oxc ] [filename]

--> -o will interpret words in octal; default option

--> -x Interpret words in hex

--> -c Interpret words in ASCII

e.g od -x infile