8dump

Overview ¶

Program 8dump dumps the named file in octal, ASCII6 and ASCII.

Usage: 8dump [-67o] [IMAGE/]FILE
 -6    dump 6 bit ascii
 -7    dump 7 bit ascii
 -o    dump octal

If no options are provided, octal and ASCII6 are displayed, otherwise, octal is displayed and ASCII6 (-6 provided) and ASCII (-7 provided). The -o option is to enable displaying of only octal and no ASCII.

The following examples of path names assume PDP8_IMAGE is /tmp/os8.rk05:

PATH                   DRIVE         SIDE FILE
foobar.xy               /tmp/os8.rk05  A  FOOBAR.XY
b:foobar.xy             /tmp/os8.rk05  B  FOOBAR.XY
./os8.rk05/foobar.xy    ./os8.rk05     A  FOOBAR.XY
./os8.rk05/a:foobar.xy  ./os8.rk05     A  FOOBAR.XY
./os8.rk05/b:foobar.xy  ./os8.rk05     B  FOOBAR.XY