[prog] Reading data file

[tiera at comhem.se]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 12:24:22PM +0100, dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net wrote:
> There has been a thread about roughly the same topic a while ago
> on Techtalk (?). (I couldn't find it with Google, though).

I found it here on the programming list. 

> There, the program "od" was suggested -- which is short for
> octal dump -- it dumps files in octal/decimal/hexadecimal/whatever
> format. This may be useful here.

Perfect. Just what I needed.
 
> This command line seems appropriate for your application:
> $ od -j 4 -t x4 -w8 binaryfile

I used the -t u4 instead of -t x4 and that got me the message id in
the second column and the flags in the third (16 for replied, 32 for
forwarded and 0 for just read). 

> hope this helps

Yes it did. Thanks!

> regards
> dominik

/Tiera