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STRINGS can: Make text strings in any file readable. Does this by just showing characters of pure text and optionally, the space or tab characters between pure text strings (-w). Can extract textual data from databases, executable files, word processor documents. Do filter only on binary files that are not 100% pure ASCII (-b). Set minimum length of filtered strings and only show those that are greater or equal to this length (-l<d>). Show length of filtered strings extracted (-d). Intelligence Services tools PDGREPPE or FGREPPE can show file position of a given string. Show name of file in front of each filtered string extracted (-f). Example: Normally PC DOS will output a file to the screen and be UNABLE to handle non-textual characters. type sample.bin Notice that text output of the binary file SAMPLE.BIN was visible but flew past on the screen faster than a speed reader could see it. Any binary output might wobble up the screen. strings -w sample.bin With STRINGS there is much better presentation of file SAMPLE.BIN paged and filtered to accurately show strings of text surrounded by white space (option -w) by STRINGS. SEE THE OPTION SECTIONS FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. Notes: The MS-DOS ERRORLEVEL variable is affected by this program. Program Return Value (MS-DOS ERRORLEVEL) Value 0 Success. Data had strings of visible ASCII characters. 1 No strings of visible ASCII characters. 2 Program given bad options or data. 3 Program failure. (Please contact by EMAIL: intlsvs@gmail.com)
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