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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How would I create a NULL terminated file in Unix under Bash? Post 302456871 by bartus11 on Sunday 26th of September 2010 03:05:45 PM
Old 09-26-2010
NULL character is the one of the characters that can't be used in Unix filenames (system won't allow creating it).
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

macutil

MACUTIL(1)                                                    General Commands Manual                                                   MACUTIL(1)

NAME

       macutil - A package that deals with MacIntosh files on a Unix system

DESCRIPTION

       macutil  is  a package that contains a number of utilities that deal with MacIntosh files on a Unix system.  It contains the following pro-
       grams:

       binhex Convert files to BinHex 4.0 compatible hexified form.

       frommac
              Receives files from the MacIntosh on the Unix system.

       hexbin Convert hexified files to their MacIntosh format.

       macsave
              Save a series of files from a MacBinary stream as individual files.

       macstream
              Combine a series of files to a MacBinary stream.

       macunpack
              Unpack a MacIntosh archive into its constituents.

       tomac  Transmits files from the Unix system to a MacIntosh.

BUGS

       This manual page is hopelessly incomplete!

SEE ALSO

       binhex(1), frommac(1), hexbin(1), macsave(1), macstream(1), macunpack(1), tomac(1)

AUTHOR

       Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)

3rd Berkeley Distribution                                        October 22, 1992                                                       MACUTIL(1)
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