From: bostonmacosx <tcdevlin@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T01:58:57+09:00
Subject: Re: So I got a binary file...

f 80 00 00 bf 80 00 00  bf 80 00 00 c0 00 00 00  |................|
00046170  bf 80 00 00 bf 80 00 00  3f 80 00 00 3f 80 00 00 
|........?...?...|
00046180  bf 80 00 00 bf 80 00 00  c0 00 00 00 c0 40 00 00 
|.............@..|
00046190  c0 00 00 00 bf 80 00 00  40 40 00 00 40 a0 00 00 
|........@@..@...|
000461a0  40 e0 00 00 40 e0 00 00  40 c0 00 00 40 a0 00 00 
|@...@...@...@...|
000461b0  40 40 00 00 40 00 00 00  40 00 00 00 40 40 00 00 
|@@..@...@...@@..|
000461c0  40 80 00 00 40 a0 00 00  40 a0 00 00 40 a0 00 00 
|@...@...@...@...|
000461d0  40 80 00 00 40 40 00 00  40 00 00 00 40 40 00 00 
|@...@@..@...@@..|
000461e0  40 40 00 00 40 80 00 00  40 a0 00 00 40 c0 00 00 
|@@..@...@...@...|
000461f0  40 c0 00 00 40 a0 00 00  40 40 00 00 40 00 00 00 
|@...@...@@..@...|
00046200  3f 80 00 00 40 00 00 00  40 80 00 00 40 a0 00 00 
|?...@...@...@...|
00046210  40 c0 00 00 40 a0 00 00  40 a0 00 00 40 80 00 00 
|@...@...@...@...|
00046220  40 40 00 00 40 40 00 00  40 40 00 00 40 40 00 00 
|@@..@@..@@..@@..|

Really means nothing to me. What I'm looking to find is turning the 
whole thing into a human readable ASCII format.


William Stevens wrote:
> bostonmacosx wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Do you just want a hexdump of the contents were only the standard 
> printable characters are displayed?
> If so you can do this, on Mac OS X, by typing 'hexdump -C <the file in 
> question>' in a terminal window.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Robert
> 
> Good luck,
> Bill


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