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| author | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2022-07-19 04:02:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> | 2022-07-19 04:02:56 +0000 |
| commit | 270cd7304dd379ee490df57120d281641c292398 (patch) | |
| tree | 460d315db53c3b8214402650ad5b94bcba4c56dc /inhex/README | |
| parent | f1c4468bc5353fa361029e790b3ab370d22d5101 (diff) | |
| download | sg3_utils-270cd7304dd379ee490df57120d281641c292398.tar.gz | |
another round of sgj_* function renaming; sg_inq+sg_vpd: add new Block Limits VPD page code
git-svn-id: https://svn.bingwo.ca/repos/sg3_utils/trunk@961 6180dd3e-e324-4e3e-922d-17de1ae2f315
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diff --git a/inhex/README b/inhex/README index ed2419ce..77557a05 100644 --- a/inhex/README +++ b/inhex/README @@ -70,13 +70,19 @@ The second form of sg_decode_sense appends an ASCII rendering of the 16 bytes to the right of each line. When ASCII hexadecimal is being used as input to a utility in this -package, the "input offset" at the start of each line must (and the -optional ASCII rendering to the right of each line, must not be given. +package, the "input offset" at the start of each line (and the optional +ASCII rendering to the right of each line) must not be given. That can be done with hexdump: hexdump -An -C -v vpd_zbdc.raw + ^^^ +That is a syntax error, there is no 'A' option <<<<<<<< check + +And the sg_decode_sense utility can do it with (with the --nodecode option): + sg_decode_sense -N --binary=vpd_zbdc.raw -HHH +That will print suitable lines of hexadecimal (16 bytes per line) to the +console (stdout) To go the other way (i.e. hexadecimal to binary): + sg_decode_sense -N --inhex=vpd_zbdc.hex --write=vpd_zbdc.bin -And the sg_decode_sense utility can do it with: - sg_decode_sense --binary=vpd_zbdc.raw -HHH Conclusion ---------- @@ -85,4 +91,4 @@ that support --inhex and don't have hex data already. Special cases are also welcome. They help the author test this code. Douglas Gilbert -21st January 2022 +18th July 2022 |