There's an old UNIX utility called "strings" that will read a binary file, 
such as an executable, and dump out anything that looks like it could be a 
text string embedded therein.
  I'm sure I've seen freeware versions of it for Windows around.

David Gillett


On 5 Jul 2007 at 13:07, Sue wrote:

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> Hi Listers,
> 
> For once a quick question coming from me.
> Does anyone know of a freeware program comparable
> to ztree or ultra edit for trying to view files
> via hex whe trying to see what is n a file thus looking for as many
> bits of English words as possible?
> 
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