Re: changing text into binary?

[A.J.Mechelynck]

Chuck Mason wrote:

I've a text file with hundreds of thousands of hex numbers, i.e.:


ff 03 04 ab 30 ab 03 41  ...
...
...
ff 03 04 ab 30 ...


all in plain ascii text.  I'm looking for a switch that could change it

into the actual bytes those numbers represent.

Any ideas, without having to write a program for it?

Chuck

See
        :help hex-editing
        :help 23.4
                /USING XXD


Best regards,
Tony.