At 23:13 24.11.1997 -0700, Alfredo wrote:
>If variety is the spice of life, the HP3000 certainly has MANY spicy and
>fun ways to look at bits and bytes (and to keep those bits and bytes
>private, secure, and readily available to authorized multimedia eyes and
>ears).

Okay, some more spice... the MPE/iX Posix Shell offers the OD utility.
Not as odd as it may sound ;-) the od stands for "octal dump" (but does
have a number of options, as usual...)

  od    myfile  ... gives (o)ctal (d)ump
  od -c myfile  ... gives (c)har dump (with control chars in \xxx notation)
  od -x myfile  ... gives he(x) dump

As always, the OD.HPBIN.SYS can also be used from the CI, if preferred.
I sometimes SETVAR HPPATH HPPATH+",HPBIN.SYS" to get those utils easily.

Lars.

PS: I guess I am using the FCOPY;HEX;CHAR more frequently, though :)