when i view pe file in hexeditor value is reversing stored in it but why?
for example :
in pe file header structure 2nd record is referred to Number Of Section
that's value is 0300
but real value is 0003
that's mean for read value from pe file we must read it byte to byte from right !
PE format is Little Endian, so the least-significant byte is first.
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Everything is stored as 0 1 in digital , binary format file or other format file
So when we are trying to open a Executive file with hex editor it could show all the random ASCII character that will be produced based on 7, 0 1 bits that randomly created that ( anything ) file because it is 0 1 at the storage, in memory.
So why it shows strange character that are not ASCII char?
A hex reader doesn't just parse 7 bit per 7 bit or 8 bit? it read some meta data in file and then read based on that?
Your hex editor is choosing to decode the bytes not as ASCII but as some other character encoding.
You are right the ASCII character set has 128 codepoints and the ASCII character encoding encodes them in single bytes in the range 0 to 127. Since bytes in an arbitrary file could range from 0 to 255 and the ASCII character set isn't used much for text files, decoding as ASCII wouldn't reveal as much information about potential text as a more likely character encoding and would reveal information about only half of the values of binary files.
A hex editor's job is to display and allow you to edit bytes. Additional presentations and editing capability are extra features. Many do present text, some allow search and replace of text. Some even work with other data formats such as decimal integers, multibyte integers, floating point, etc.
There is no text but encoded text. So, to support text, a hex editor—and any other program (including compilers)—must choose or allow you to choose a character encoding. For byte values that can't be decoded using that encoding, a dot or question mark is often substituted in the text display of a hex editor.
If you don't find which character encoding is used by your hex editor, you could test it by creating a file with byte values 0 to 255, see what it displays and match it against the many, many possibilities. It might be one that your operating system uses for your "default". In Windows cmd, go chcp; In Linux terminal, go locale.
I have created layout based on cobol copybook.
Layout snap-shot:
I tried to load data also selecting same layout, it gives me wrong result for some columns. I try using all binary numeric type.
CLASS-ORDER-EDGE
DIV-NO-EDG
OFFICE-NO-EDG
REG-AREA-NO-EDG
CITY-NO-EDG
COUNTY-NO-EDG
BILS-COUNT-EDG
REV-AMOUNT-EDG
USAGE-QTY-EDG
GAS-CCF-EDG
result snapshot
Input file can be find below attachment
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or
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-whK3DXBRIGa0I0aE5SUHdMTDg
Expected output:
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Unpacking COMP-3 digit using Java
First Problem you have done an EBCDIC --> ascii conversion on the file !!!!
The EBCDIC --> ascii conversion will also try and convert binary fields as well as text.
For example:
Comp-3 value hex hex after Ascii conversion
400 x'400c' x'200c' x'40' is the ebcdic space character
it gets converted to the ascii
space character x'20'
You need to do binary transfer, keeping the file as ebcdic:
Check the file on the Mainframe if it has a RECFM=FB you can do a transfer
If the file is RECFM=VB make sure you transfer the RDW (Record Descriptor word) (or copy the VB file to a FB file on the mainframe).
Other points:
You will have to update RecordEditor/JRecord
The font will need to be ebcdic (cp037 for US ebcdic; for other lookup)
The FileStructure/FileOrganisation needs to change (Fixed length / VB)
Finally
BILS-Count-EDG is either 9 characters long or starts in column 85 (and is 8 bytes long).
You should include Xml in as text not copy a picture in.
In the RecordEditor if you Right click >>> Edit Record; it will show the fields as Value, Raw Text and Hex. That is useful for seeing what is going on
You do not seem to accept many answers; it is not relevant whether the answer solves your problem; it is whether the answer is correct answer for the question.
Hello Im pretty new to Mips and I'm trying to save three 8-bit value and there hex value while including the 0X prefix to make sure they are read as hexadecimal. I made a table of three values I would like to store.
Table of Values
I would like these values to be stored in the .data section, I'm aware I need to use .byte to store them but can't figure out how to store multiple values. I later need to loop through each value. Thank you for any help.
Just separate them by commas:
.data
foo: byte 0x0, 0x1, 0x2
Note that the 0x prefix is completely unnecessary. 0, 1, 2 would give you exactly the same values. They are just collections of bits, and whether you want to present them to the user as a base10 string or a base16 string at some point is irrelevant.
I have created an ach file which, in a text editor looks exactly like a valid ach file. When I open it in an ACH viewer tool I get an error saying that the first character must be 1. I found this in the NACHA file specs 'Picture: This is the type of bit the ACH system is expecting to see. A 9 indicates a numeric value and an X indicates an
alphabetic value. If you put a letter in a PIC 9 position, the system will reject the field. If you see a number in parentheses
after the X or 9, that indicates the number of characters in that field. For example 9(10) means that field contains 10
numeric characters.'
The first position in the file is supposed to have content 1 in Picture format of size 1. I don't understand what do I need to do to fix this?
I finally downloaded a Hex file explorer and saw that the valid ACH file and my file both had different first characters. I found out that the ACH file needs the data in the ASCII format. All I had to do was when I populated the ACH file with data, I converted the data to ASCII before writing it.
I read that a tar entry type of 'L' (76) is used by gnu tar and gnu-compliant tar utilities to indicate that the next entry in the archive has a "long" name. In this case the header block with the entry type of 'L' usually encodes the name ././#LongLink .
My question is: where is the format of the next block described?
The format of a tar archive is very simple: it is just a series of 512-byte blocks. In the normal case, each file in a tar archive is represented as a series of blocks. The first block is a header block, containing the file name, entry type, modified time, and other metadata. Then the raw file data follows, using as many 512-byte blocks as required. Then the next entry.
If the filename is longer than will fit in the space allocated in the header block, gnu tar apparently uses what's known as "the ././#LongLink trick". I can't find a precise description for it.
When the entry type is 'L', how do I know how long the "long" filename is? Is the long name limited to 512 bytes, in other words, whatever fits in one block?
Most importantly: where is this documented?
Just by observation of a single archive here's what I surmised about the 'L' entry type in tar archives, and the "././#LongLink" name:
The 'L' entry is present in a header for a series of 1 or more 512-byte blocks that hold just the filename for a file or directory with a name over 100 chars. For example, if the filename is 1200 chars long, then the size in the header block will be 1200, and there will be 3 additional blocks with filename data; the last block is partially filled.
Following that series is another header block, in the traditional form - a header with type '0' (regular file) or '5' (directory), followed by the appropriate number of data blocks with the entry data. In the header for this series, the name will be truncated to the first 100 characters of the actual name.
EDIT
See my implementation here:
http://cheesoexamples.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/99885#1868643
Note that the information about all of that can be found in the libtar project:
http://www.feep.net/libtar/
The proposed header is libtar.h (opposed to the POSIX tar.h) which clearly includes a long filename, and long symbolic link.
Get the "fake" headers + data for the long filenames/links then the "real" header (except for the actual filename and symbolic link) after that.
HEADER type 'L'
BLOCKS of data with the real long filename
HEADER type 'K'
BLOCKS of data with the real symbolic link
HEADER type '0' (or '5' for directory, etc.)
BLOCKS of data with the actual file contents
Of course, under MS-Windows, you probably won't handle symbolic links, although with Win7 it is said that symbolic links under MS-Windows are working (finally—this is now official in Win10!)
Pertinent definition from libtar.h:
/* GNU extensions for typeflag */
#define GNU_LONGNAME_TYPE 'L'
#define GNU_LONGLINK_TYPE 'K'