09-18-2013
All the 256 holes are always taken, so if your milieu does not have a limited character set, then you are right, the only escape is into longer strings for short characters, but then only context tells you that is the sort of file you have. That's why JAVA and xml use UTF-8 and label the content type. It started as a 'code page' discussion, a.k.a "what drum is on the printer".
There are apps for UNIX around that let you deal with image files like jpg and gif in text files of text numbers, like a decimal dump of a bmp file. I suppose if you run binary through the right dump you can then process it in shell back to a binary file.
Last edited by DGPickett; 09-18-2013 at 05:37 PM..
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strncpy
STRCPY(3) Linux Programmer's Manual STRCPY(3)
NAME
strcpy, strncpy - copy a string
SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h>
char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src);
char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n);
DESCRIPTION
The strcpy() function copies the string pointed to by src, including the terminating null byte ('