Displaying embedded characters

[croydon]

I'm not sure that this is the right forum but...

Does anybody know of a utility that would enable me to view the contents of a text file including any embedded characters such as carriage returns and line feeds?

Obviously Wordpad and Notepad will display the text but not other characters in the file.

Thanks for your help.

 

[xwb]

You can use one of the PD editors like gvim or hexedit. If you aren't a Unix person, try hexedit.

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Croydon

I find LIST.EXE in the MS Windows Resource Toolkit is good.

Not quite as good as Vernon Buerg's old LIST.COM in its hex display, but it understands long file names and big files.

Dump only, no editing.

Jock

 

[xwb]

You can also use debug.

D:\WINNT>debug win.ini
-d
0D76:0100  3B 20 66 6F 72 20 31 36-2D 62 69 74 20 61 70 70   ; for 16-bit app
0D76:0110  20 73 75 70 70 6F 72 74-0D 0A 5B 66 6F 6E 74 73    support..[fonts
0D76:0120  5D 0D 0A 5B 65 78 74 65-6E 73 69 6F 6E 73 5D 0D   ]..[extensions].
0D76:0130  0A 5B 6D 63 69 20 65 78-74 65 6E 73 69 6F 6E 73   .[mci extensions
0D76:0140  5D 0D 0A 5B 66 69 6C 65-73 5D 0D 0A 5B 4D 61 69   ]..[files]..[Mai
0D76:0150  6C 5D 0D 0A 4D 41 50 49-3D 31 0D 0A 43 4D 43 3D   l]..MAPI=1..CMC=
0D76:0160  31 0D 0A 43 4D 43 44 4C-4C 4E 41 4D 45 3D 6D 61   1..CMCDLLNAME=ma
0D76:0170  70 69 2E 64 6C 6C 0D 0A-43 4D 43 44 4C 4C 4E 41   pi.dll..CMCDLLNA
-q

 

[croydon]

Thanks for the suggestions.