12-17-2011
Alphabet and numeric values repeat again and again on HDD/Linux-Ubuntu
My system is Linux, Ubuntu. I examine my hard disk drive with a hex editor, it's unencrypted, and when I scroll down, using page down in the ASCII section at right showing the alphanumeric and symbols information, the letters of the alphabet repeat from A-Z along with numbers repeating, followed by some gibberish, a long space of nothing, and more alphabet A-Z and numerical repetition, why is this there it appears like some type of filler why is it there whenever I make a Linux install its there, for what purpose does someone know? Is it a rootkit or trojan? It feels like forever using page down and witnessing all of the repeats of gibberish, alphanumeric information. Googling didn't help me.
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RE(1) General Commands Manual RE(1)
NAME
re - programm to conver russian texts between different encodings
SYNOPSIS
re <infile><outfile><infrmt><outfrmt><f|b|s><u|l|s>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
re is a program that converts russian texts between encodings.
OPTIONS
The easiest way to convert some file into readable form (KOI-8), just type this:
re <SourceFile> <DestFile> ? K
where :
<SourceFile> - unreadable file
<DestFile> - resulting file
? - tells RE that source codepage is unknown and RE should analyze the file and determine the source codepage
K - tells RE that destination codepage is KOI-8
Note: If you know, what is source codepage, you may use it instead of "?" option. For example, you want to convert letter.txt file which
was written in Win you know, that this file is in 1251 codepage:
re letter.txt letter2.txt W K
Now examine the letter2.txt - you should see russian symbols in KOI-8.
Here is the know codepages list and their abbreviatures:
W - Windows 1251 "_" - _xxe
D - Dos "%" - %hex
K - KOI-8 "\" - 'hex
L - Latin G - Graph_win
I - Iso "<" - <binhex>
H - HEX + - +UTF7-
S - ShiftKbrd C - C_MIC
M - Mac Y - Y_c16
A - AFF Z - Z_c32
O - Odd(UTF8_1) F - F(UTF8_2)
B - Base64 P - Pict
E - Express N - N_Estl
T - T-Html V - V_Vpp855
U - User X - X_sp
"-" - uue J - J_diff
Other options are: [-v][-E|-R|-N][-e|-s]
-v - tells what is processing
-n - don't tells what is processing (default)
-E - converts all p,H from Russian to English
-R - converts all p,H from English to Russian
-N - lets all p,H Russian or English as in text (default)
-e - converts all symbols 0x80 - 0xFF
-s - converts only 64 symbols of Russian Alphabet (default)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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