[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: binutils-20050520-1

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoenna@efn.org
Wed May 25 16:16:00 GMT 2005


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:05:53PM +0100, zzapper wrote:
> usr/bin/strings.exe strings - print the strings of printable
> characters in files. (Really Useful for guessing what a program
> does)

This is really elegant and precise use of language.

To *find* out what a program does, use man or info.
To *guess* what a program does, use strings.



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