On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:17:27PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > What would be the use of looking at a screen full of control characters? > > Because when I look at a binary with less, I *mean* to do > that... usually to look for corruption (blocks of nulls) or things > like *short* strings or strings not in the text section, that > "strings" *won't find*. > > No kidding. I do the same thing quite often myself, generally when > I'm debugging a low-level tool. However, you can get around this, if > lesspipe is `too smart', by simply doing `cat binary|less' instead of > `less binary'.
One of the things I like about Linux, and Unix in general, is that it doesn't try to be smart where you don't expect it to. I think that if users want to see 'nm' or strings or whatever, they can do those things. nm binary | less, or whatever.. Let's leave the default alone:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
