[plug] Looking for LIST

Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Mon Apr 1 19:48:33 WST 2002


Lately I have been using khexedit for looking at binaries in a user
friendly fashion.  You mention dumphex - dont know it but hexdump can be
quite good if you "stack" the switches (i.e., will display hex and chars
at the same time - see below for a slightly different format, the actual
format is up to you!)

The byte reversed display is because it is raw, ie intel machines
actually store 2 bytes in that fashion.

BillK

* start of a mandrake floppy image using hexdump: (lines broken by mail
client)
000000   ë   <  90   S   Y   S   L   I   N   U   X nul          ë < . S
Y S L I N U X .
000014 stx stx soh nul soh dle nul   @  vt   ð enq nul          . . . .
. . . @ . ð . .
000030 dc2 nul stx nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul          . . . .
. . . . . . . .
000044 nul nul   )   ê   0   ¾   9                               . . ) ê
0 ¾ 9          
000060                           F   A   T   1  
2                          F A T 1 2  
000074           ú   ü   1   É  8e   Ñ   ¼ nul   |  8e               ú ü
1 É . Ñ ¼ . | .

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 17:44, navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> Hello PLUG
> 
> I am looking for a software tool that works like the old list.com program 
> that all us old DOS programmers might have used. The functions I found to 
> my liking are the simple file browsing, file viewing with or without 
> screen wrapping, hex/ ascii display junk filter, etc. 
> 
> I have looked at MC and it's interface is toooo clumsy, this is why I 
> gave up on xtree in all its various colours. Dumphex will not give my an 
> output that is usable. I have read man but for the life of me can not get 
> it to give me a line like:
> 
> 0000 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 41 42 43 44 45 46 012345678ABCDEF
> 
> The best I have got is a hex display without the ascii but it was all 
> byte reversed so I could not use it to debug an output file. 
> 
> May be I need to roll my own in PERL. 
> 
> Regards Navarre
> 



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