[X-Unix] How does one find a string in a binary file, etc.?

[David Ledger]

At 12:53 -0700 2/9/08, Kevin Stevens wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, David Ledger wrote:
>
>>  At 09:06 -0700 2/9/08, Aaron wrote:
>>>>  Try "man strings".
>>>  That gets a negative result. "man string" turns up a bunch of C 
>>>functions. "apropos string" turns up lots and lots of C functions 
>>>and a few other useless items. Am I missing something?
>>
>>  My Leopard is also missing a man page for 'strings'. For other 
>>versions of strings
>
>Hmm, my 10.5.4 box has the man page, dated 2006.  It was an upgrade 
>from 10.4, I wonder if I inherited it from there, or maybe from the 
>developer toolkit?
>
>KeS

Odd. My Leopard mini, that was installed with a fresh install when 
nearly new, has it, but my Panther-Tiger-Leopard Updated 17"PB 
doesn't. Both have the Dev Toolkit installed.
Oh-well...

David

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