Hi all,

Is there a way of viewing a binary file through a UNIX session? Or perhaps viewing information of a binary file through a session?

thanks

The file command line utility tells you what flavor of binary file you have.
In general, you have to know the file layout, and read it with code (usually stuff you write in C or perl) that is set for that format - in order to get information like numeric binary data into human readable form.

example:
There are other utilities like strings and what -- they will also render some data into a human readable format.

Otherwise you have to find/write something to read a binary file

thanks strings worked a treat!

ocelot