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Easiest Ascii to Hex program?

This was the only forum I could think to ask...

If I have a file that is nothing but an ascii text file of hex code how can i get it to be hex code... so the file contents are like

d0cf00ff

and so on... It is quite long so I don't want to cut and paste too much. The text is in one long continuous line so no spaces or line breaks. Any ideas?

Thanks so much

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dbrunton

Try this link

http://www.simtel.net/pub/msdos/binaryed/

There's a lot of hex and binary and ascii editors here. One of these should be suitable for the job.

nmeat

Are you looking for a small program which does the job or do you want to have some help coding on it yourself ?

Triskelion

YES! and you already have it on your computer (Microsoft Operating systems).

It's called 'DEBUG'

At a DOS prompt, type
DEBUG file.txt
or whatever your file name.

type D {enter}
to display your data.

Usually, non-EXE files will start at offset 100, so you can type
D100 {enter}
to display from the start of the file.

Triskelion

Of course, we could always write you a simple utility that converts the stuff to HEX and outputs to a different file.

fost0127

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Actaully I ended up using Frhed... I don't have to insert lines line numbers and what not. The only nasty part is cutting and pasting the data chunk of a packet.