Bin files saved as txt.. Convert

[VX L67 Getrag]

Just wondering I have some bin files saved as txt, when I try & open them in hex editor they ad OD OA every 3rd & 4th byte is there anyway to open it as hex without that?

[antus]

0D 0A is carriage return then line feed (think type writers) which is just the end of line marker where there is an "enter" in a text file. its probably either motorola srec or intel hex both of which you can find programs to convert formats. Or, better, the GQ-4X software can read those formats without conversion. But if that doesnt help you'll need to post a few lines to ID it by eye.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SREC_%28file_format%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX

[VX L67 Getrag]

Thanks Antus, I had a feeling you'd know best about it!

I tried opening it in GQ program & then save as BIN but still the same layout!

I've attached the text file I just want to look at in HEX editor in normal bin layout, if I click on it to open in hex workshop it show the old typewriter return (good analogy) & then if I click on it to open in ultraedit it opens in the row like it does in word!

Thanks again!!!!

[festy]

each byte has been converted to an ascii representation, with a space, CR and LF.
So the first bytes should be a 0x13 0x4A, but they're 0x31 ("1"), 0x33 ("3") 0x20 (space), 0x0D, 0x0A.
You'd need a tool that could read the ascii byte pairs, and convert to the actual byte.
I don't know of a tool that will do that, but if you have a few of them that you need converting I can write you something....

[Jayme]

old VS $84 file.bin

its an odd file size but thats the bytes thats in the text file :S

[VX L67 Getrag]

Festy Thanks for the reply, yeah I do have a few of them & dont want you to go to any trouble!

SO JAYME smarty pants how did you do that? & thank you to for the reply!

[Jayme]

opened the file in notepad, ctrl+a, copied then pasted into excel, used a formula to stitch together the hex chars as one long string, then copied that and pasted into xvi32 hex editor as a hex string then saved the bin

[VX L67 Getrag]

WOW , OK I'll give that a go with all the others I have, THANKS HEAPS!!!!

BTW just figured that file is Stock BWCT just missing the first 6000 bytes!

EDIT: actually for me to do it can you share the formula for excel? thats the main thing I'm missing!

[festy]

I like perl

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$ cat 84.txt | perl -ne 'chomp; print chr(hex($_))' >84.bin

[VX L67 Getrag]

I've had perl for a while but never figured out how to use it