Bug#567041: [Patch] xxd: Fix lossy reverse conversion

[James Vega]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Bram Moolenaar <Bram at moolenaar.net> wrote:
>
> James -
>
>> As described below, xxd doesn't correctly convert free-form hex dumps to
>> their original form.  Attached patch, from Jean-Baptiste Wons, fixes the
>> issue.
>
> That input doesn't look like postscript form.  This is a line of
> postscript form:
>
> 74655265616465725f49004d5475746f7269616c5f5f43506572736f6e5f
>
> Looks like the file is not in a supported format.  If you would really
> like to add this format, the dump must also be added.

According to xxd's man page:

  Use the combination -r -p to read plain hexadecimal dumps without line
  number information and without a particular column layout. Additional
  Whitespace and line-breaks are allowed anywhere.

The last sentence, in particular, seems to indicate that xxd should be
able to handle the format of the file, even if it isn't postscript
format.

-- 
James
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