> 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'. So I think the default should be to give some sort of useful display for a binary file, although a display from `strings' is not my idea of `useful'. OTOH, the output of `objdump' or `nm -s' might often be useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
