James Devenish writes: > on Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:29:31PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote: >> it provides a hex representation on the left and on the right, an >> ascii'fied represetnation... > > There are several commonplace commands, such as od, xxd, hexdump... thanks for that! xxd does the job. 8-) cheers David.