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Janis Papanagnou <
janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> The `od` tool allows displaying binary data in various formats, but
> it works on a whole data stream (not on individual fields).
> Are there any tools that support a more flexible inspection of binary
> data?
>
> I was thinking of some data specification and a tool to work with that
> specification and binary data files. My current experimental hack has
> a data specification of a form as shown in this example
If I`m following you, then this sounds like a description of
something like GNU Poke:
http://www.jemarch.net/poke
Not something I`ve had a use for myself since finding out about it
recently, but it seems like a comprehensive solution to the
problem.
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