Binary file to ASCII....

[swetha]

HI Every1,
I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

Thanks In Advance....
Swetha..

 

[cr88192]

HI Every1,
I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

question is too vague...

for example, do you want a hexdump?
do you want to transfer binary payload in a textual container (base64)?
do you want to decompose some binary format into a human readable form?
....

 

[Ed Prochak]

HI Every1,
I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

Thanks In Advance....
Swetha..

I can make the change for you and send the result to your instructor.
Just send me the email address of your instructor with the file.

Ed

 

[cr88192]

I can make the change for you and send the result to your instructor.
Just send me the email address of your instructor with the file.

just wondering:
what exactly in this convinces you it is a homework question?...
I could not tell.

to me it sounds more like a vague newb question...

 

[osmium]

I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

What if you were told to produce a hard copy (printed) version of the file,
could you do that? That's pretty much what an ASCII file is, except it
isn't printed or displayed on a monitor, the resultant output is put in,
well, a file. .

If you couldn't do that, why not? There must be some way, *known to you*,
of representing each datum in the original binary file, no exceptions
permitted.

 

[James Kuyper]

HI Every1,
I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

Binary isn't a format, it's a type of format; basically, the term can be
applied to any file that contains data that isn't stored as text. You
need to know the actual details of the file's binary format in order to
write a program to convert it into ASCII. Find documentation of that
format, and then someone can help you figure it out.

 

[Sheth Raxit]

HI Every1,
I have a file in binary format. Using a C program i
have to read that file and need to make some changes . So i wanted to
convert that into ACII format.Can any1 suggest me how to do that
please.....

1. make your question clear.
Binary file means ELF-etc file or binary data file.

"You can read binary data file <if it was written using fwrite etc>
using fread." <this may be the answer> <very simillar to you read
ascii file>

-Raxit

 

[santosh]

1. make your question clear.
Binary file means ELF-etc file or binary data file.

She made it reasonably clear in a later post that the file was a program
data file consisting of structures.

"You can read binary data file <if it was written using fwrite etc>
using fread."

What are you intending to convey by using angled brackets? Note that
getc() and fgetc() can be used on non-text files too. However it's not
as convenient as fread().

<this may be the answer> <very simillar to you read ascii file>

What's up with all the angled brackets?