This directory contains these utilities:

- hxascdmp: takes a binary stream and converts it to hexadecimal ASCII

which is sent to stdout. The incoming binary stream can either be

from a file or, in the absence of a file name, from stdin. Similar to

the Unix "od" command. By default, it decodes 16 bytes per line with

an ASCII interpretation to the right of each line. See its

hxascdmp(1) man page.

- sg_chk_asc and tst_sg_lib: are no longer here, they have been moved

to the 'ttesting' directory (a sibling of this directory).

By default, the Makefile only builds the hxascdmp utility. The 'Makefile'

file (i.e. with no suffix) builds for Linux; the 'Makefile.freebsd' file

builds for FreeBSD (e.g. 'make -f Makefile.freebsd'); the

'Makefile.solaris' file builds for Solaris; the 'Makefile.mingw' builds

in the Windows MinGW environment (e.g. msys shell); and 'Makefile.cygwin'

builds in the Windows Cygwin environment.

hxasdmp.1 is a manpage for this utility and can be viewed, without

installing it, like this:

man ./hxascdmp.1

Douglas Gilbert

5th May 2026