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From:James Manning Date:October 6 1999 7:24pm
Subject:Re: BLOB TRANSLATION PROBLEM
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[ Wednesday, October  6, 1999 ] LSzijarto@stripped wrote:
> worked fine except in a single .gif file wherein what appeared as "?" in my 
> vi editor in the original .gif was somehow translated into "NULL" when 

You might wanna trust something like "od" (specifically with -tx as a
parameter) for what a file contains... vi and vim are better than most
editors, but aren't real substitutes for a hex dump, imho.

James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
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  • Re: BLOB TRANSLATION PROBLEMJames Manning7 Oct
  • Re: BLOB TRANSLATION PROBLEMMartin Ramsch7 Oct
  • Re: BLOB TRANSLATION PROBLEMChip Turner7 Oct