On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:29:58PM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> > I was SURE you'd mentioned looking at them with od - even louder mutter.
> > Given all the advice you've got so far, I'm sure you can sort it out for
> > yourself by now :-)
>> I did!
>> :!od %
>> (in vim)
and presumably vim just pipes its current view of the file to od, hence the
problem. Of course if you will use vi, no matter how much improved . . .
Those of us using editors bigger than our operating systems just tell the
editor to give us a hex view of the file being edited.
Regards,
Niall
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