how to do "hexdump" to analyze special white-space characters?

ahnkle cygwin@ekers.idps.co.uk
Tue Nov 11 13:35:00 GMT 2003


I discovered a program called dump that displays input as hex. I found 
it very useful. It is in the cygutils package.

regards,
jeremy

Ralf Hauser wrote:

> The application I am working on is quite sensitive to the whitespaces (e.g.
> \n versus \r\n, etc.) it gets in the files I feed it.
> 
> To some degree, I can analyze different variants of these files with
> "cat -vte".
> But even better would be to see more in detail which hex code the characters
> have as I can do under Linux with "hexdump -C".
> 
> How would I do that with cygwin?
> 
> Has anybody had success the 3 yr old Japanese util-cygwin-1.0.tar.gz as per
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00778.html?
> 
> Any other hints? Other cygwin tools that achieve the same result?
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 
> 	Ralf
> 
> on replies, pls cc: me at hauser@acm.org
> 
> 
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