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[Jon Baer]

Not sure if you are looking to just parse/analyze but Ive used these  
scripting options:

xxd -ps file.bin (pipe to grep | pipe to tr | piped to xxd -r)
cut -b 10-13 | xxd -ps

There is also a great rubygem called bindata which is dead simple to  
use, just build your own struct.
http://bindata.rubyforge.org

(Or were you just talking about a GUI app?)

- Jon

On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> Wondering if anybody can give personal experience with a linux- 
> based flexible file viewer.
>
> The file in question is a mixed binary/ascii (yes ascii, not utf-8)  
> format from a DOS program.  It appears that financial data and  
> dates are encoded as binaries, probably to save space, and that  
> would mean there are also pointers in there.  I've got to identify  
> about 4 important fields and pull them out.
>
> I've done jobs like this plenty of times, but not since my fox  
> days, and fox was pretty good with stuff like this.  I've never had  
> to do it with *nix tools.
>
> I'm aware that there are plenty of hex viewers out there, what i'm  
> hoping for is that somebody has done something similar or close and  
> can recommend a good viewer from personal experience.
>
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