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 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.