bostonmacosx wrote:
> Sorry for being such a NEWB. I'm a pretty prolific PHP writer however 
> I'm new to RUBY and want to expand my horizons.
> 
> I have a big-endian binary file and want to convert it to ascii so I see 
> what's in it.
> Is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Do you just want a hexdump of the contents were only the standard 
printable characters are displayed?
If so you can do this, on Mac OS X, by typing 'hexdump -C <the file in 
question>' in a terminal window.

> 
> Thanks
> Robert

Good luck,
Bill

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