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Old 04-01-2008
Cutting two colums and converting them to ascii (.txt) format

Hello Gurus,

I have a file in which two columns contains binary data i want to cut those two binary columns convert them to ascii and process the file.

i tried using cut command..i am able to cut but how can i convert them from binary to ascii and paste them in their original position.

Pls guide me to resolve this.

--Mora
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Old 04-01-2008
What does "binary data" mean?

Can we have samples?
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