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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Need to convert Binary files to ascii Post 57794 by A452917 on Friday 5th of November 2004 07:46:17 PM
Old 11-05-2004
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dd if=binaryinputfile bs=1 skip=3800 count=4 | od -t u4
Krishna,

The above command will work only if:

1. In the binary file, there is a 4 byte number embeded in bytes 3801-3804.

And remember, it will just give you the Integer present at that location. It won't convert the binary file into text file.
 

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svcdumplog(1m)															    svcdumplog(1m)

NAME
svcdumplog - Prints contents of a binary serviceability log file SYNOPSIS
svcdumplog [-s num_of_entries] logfile OPTIONS
The -s flag tells svcdumplog to skip the first num_of_entries log entries before printing, where num_of_entries is a number. DESCRIPTION
The svcdumplog program will print the contents of a binary log file. DCE components log important information about their activities and state via the DCE serviceability interface. The log messages can be routed as desired via the dcecp log object. The messages can also be written in either binary or in text format (information about specify- ing message format can be found in svcroute(5)). When binary format has been specified for a component's messages, each log entry will be written as a binary record of data defined (in dce/svclog.h) as the contents of the serviceability prolog structure. The svcdumplog utility will print the contents of such a binary log file as readable text. RELATED INFORMATION
dce_svc_log_get(3), dce_svc_log_close(3), dce_svc_log_open(3), dce_svc_log_rewind(3), svcroute(5), log(1m) Books: OSF DCE Porting and Testing Guide, OSF DCE Application Development Guide svcdumplog(1m)
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