There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...

Convert the IBM Column Binary format file back to an 80 characered record ASCII file. If you can imagine an 80 column punched card, each column of that card is stored in a 16 bit word. (an 80 column ...

I've been mucking about with test, but can't get it to do what I want. Specifically, I have a directory with several hundred files, some of which are ascii. And of the ascii files, I need to diff them ...