From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-05-01T08:22:59+09:00
Subject: Re: So I got a binary file...

From: "bostonmacosx" <tcdevlin@bc.edu>
>
> Sorry for being such a NEWB. I'm a pretty prolific PHP writer however 
> I'm new to RUBY and want to expand my horizons.
> 
> I have a big-endian binary file and want to convert it to ascii so I see 
> what's in it.
> Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Not sure what you mean.  Do you want an ASCII hex dump of the
file?  (like `od -x`)  Or just strip the binary characters, and print any
ASCII sequences found (like `strings`) ?


Regards,

Bill