DUMP |
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The DUMP command displays the content of record(s) from a file in hexadecimal and character format.
Format
DUMP {DICT} filename {record ... | *} {options}
where
The DUMP command displays the specified records from file. Each record is preceded by the file and record names.
The record is treated as binary data in which field marks are simply part of the data. It is shown in both hexadecimal and character format, 16 bytes per line. Non-printing characters are displayed as dots (.) except for the field mark, value mark and subvalue mark which as shown as ^, ] and \. Each line is prefixed by the byte offset (from zero) of the first byte on the line.
When using the default select list as the source of record ids to be processed, a confirmation prompt is issued prior to commencing the display. This can be suppressed using the NO.QUERY option.
The DUMP command is equivalent to use of CT with the BINARY option.
Example
DUMP READERS 2 READERS 2 00000000: 43 61 72 74 77 72 69 67 68 74 2C 20 44 FE 37 20 | Cartwright, D^7 00000010: 53 70 72 69 6E 67 20 47 72 6F 76 65 FD 4E 6F 74 | Spring Grove]Not 00000020: 74 69 6E 67 68 61 6D FE 31 2D 31 FD 33 2D 31 | tingham^1-1]3-1
The above command dumps the record with id 2 from the READERS file.
See also: CT |