On Wednesday, December 13, 2000 11:38 AM, Wirt Atmar  wrote:

<snip>

: One of these programs is FCOPY. When used with the CHAR and HEX options, you
: can see what is really in your files. Indeed, it's the only program I trust
: for this function. Essentially every other program you're likely to use is
: likely to interpret the data in some manner and present you with a false
: picture of what you're seeing. If you need to see what's actually in your
: files, you want to use FCOPY.

</snip>

I agree with what Wirt says about the value of FCOPY in this instance. For
example, this
is how I've used FCOPY to display the date in a file that appears like this ( ?
) when printed.


:FCOPY FROM=DATEFILE;TO=;CHAR;HEX
HP31900A.05.04 FILE COPIER (C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1999




DATEFILE RECORD 0 (%0, #0)

0000: 0000 04BC                               ....
EOF FOUND IN FROMFILE AFTER RECORD 0

1 RECORD PROCESSED *** 0 ERRORS


END OF SUBSYSTEM
:CALC $04BC
1212, $4BC, %2274

Voila.  December 12th.
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