File Display Utility -------------------- Program Features

Software developers often capture data into data files. Although common text processing programs, such as Windows^® NotePad and WordPad, can be used to display and print out data that is pure ASCII text, they cannot handle non-printable characters. This can be important, for example, when a developer captures normally textual data from a serial port to a text file and unexpected non-text characters arrive. Text processing programs cannot show the developer what those characters are so the cause can be determined.

The retiSoft File Display/Dump Utility program allows the user to view and print the contents of any file, whether it contains pure text, "binary" data, or a combination. The key features of this program are:

• File type selection: The user can specify whether the file to be displayed should be treated as lines of text or blocks of binary data.

• Dual format displays: Separate windows are provided to allow the file to be displayed in ASCII text format, hexadecimal representation of each byte, or both simultaneously.

• File data printout: The displayed ASCII and/or binary data can be sent to any installed Windows^® printer.

The retiSoft File Display/Dump Utility works through standard Windows^® printer services and therefore can output to any printer or pseudo-printer installed on your system. This includes fax programs and Adobe^® Acrobat^® (to create PDF files for electronic archives and distribution).

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