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this would be a really elegant solution if it could produce a human readable output, but the output is unreadable - its all in hex? all lines start with something like write(3, "jh\260)\340\221j\16S\203B\202... which im assuming is due to the writing of data from one drive to the other

mulllhausen
– mulllhausen

2011-06-10 05:57:42 +00:00
Commented Jun 10, 2011 at 5:57
Perfect! Very usefull for debugs! And the right column show also ASCII, so its not just HEX. Thanks.

DrBeco
– DrBeco

2013-10-12 18:50:35 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2013 at 18:50

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