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Hello HugoV!!!

Thank you so much for those two links that you gave me. The first one leads to a lot of basic information on binary files that I really needed. Also, there is an illustration of a hex dump there. When I clicked on “hex dump” and read all about it a lot of things became very clear to me.

For example, I got the answer to my question about why it is so hard now to get a hold of a string of just ones and zeros of any computer file. Having read that Wiki article on “hex dump”, I realized that in fact it’s not hard at all as hex dump IS the representation of that string, except with the use of two-digit hexadecimal numbers. Thus, if there is such a desire to see only ones and zeros, one just needs to convert those hex numbers into base2 numbers.

The second link leads to a lot of threads and posts that are kind of overwhelming to me as a lot of things there I simply don’t understand.


Tiny Hex has the ability of converting any binary file’s hex dump into a plain text. If so, then I don’t understand why AHK is limited in this regard? Why not just convert to a text and then let AHK operate on it – AHK’s capabilities with text files, as far as I know, are unlimited. (I am going to make use of that Tiny Hex's feature to avoid the necessity of dealing with characters that are not supported in AHK.)


Yes, I understand that, but I will still try to play with it. My experience shows me that doing some silly experiments with no obvious profit on the horizon can at times yield surprisingly positive results. That’s how I arrived at AHK, after all.

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/FileRead.htm says:
To be able to read and process binary files you need special functions which can be found in the links in Murp|es post (bin read/write).

Do let us know if you manage to convert movies to ASCII art using AHK
I'm sure we'll put it to good use (see http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ for an example)

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