Greetings,

I am looking for a convenient way to dump a byte stream file that
contains unknown data, data which may not be well behaved.

With a file of fixed or variable length records, I often use something
like this to see exactly what's there:

FCOPY FROM=MYFILE;TO=;CHAR;HEX;NORECNUM

With a byte stream file, however, the byte stream emulator gets in the
way.  It insists on presenting the file as a collection of records,
defined by the new-line character (ASCII 10, or '\n', or <LF>).  This
may not be convenient if the file contains binary numbers.  Worse yet, I
may have a 9000-byte file that doesn't contain any <LF> characters at
all.

None of the usual tricks, like using MR;NOBUF, seem to work.  

I know I can open the file with HPFOPEN and use item 77 to sidestep the
emulator.  Does anybody know an easier way?

Walter  

Walter J. Murray

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