Unix Tip: TRANSFERRING MULTIBYTE FILES

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Unix Tip 3013 - May 7, 2010

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TRANSFERRING MULTIBYTE FILES

Do you find trouble in transferring multibyte binary data files to Windows and then read through HexEditor ? (Or some such windows based application )

Try Solaris/HP-UX command /usr/bin/od to generate octal and hexadecimal Dump !

-x Interpret words in hex.

$od -x <Raw_File_Name>

will generate Hex View on stdout. For more usage on the command explore
"man od".

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