[TAG] Talkback:126/howell.html

[Jimmy O'Regan]

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2008/8/1 Owen Townsend <owen at uvsoftware.ca>:
> Jimmy:
>
> Yes, I would expect that. I hope you will try out uvhd & let me know
> if it could be useful to you ?
> It has proven useful to most of my customers converting mainframes
> to Linux & working with mainframe type files with packed/binary fields.
> I think it should be useful to Linux users at large since there are
> lots of linux files with binary contents not easily viewed with vi, etc.

Sounds interesting. I've had some experience with AS/400s in college,
and remember having quite a lot of trouble getting data out of them.
But that's firmly in the past. I will bear it in mind, though, the
next time I feel the urge to tinker with some binary file.