Re: tlug: "strings" for Java class files

["Adrian D. Havill" <havill@example.com>]

Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 10:04:43PM +0900, Adrian D. Havill wrote:
> > I have a strings program that:
> > 2) is 100% reliable
> 
> Thank you. I have not laughed so much in a long, long time.

ok. ok. you got me.

I meant that it's reliable in the sense of no ambiguities trying to
determine if the stream is instruction code or shift-jis (which can
never be 100% reliable). The reliablity of the prog in q is not the
issue-- it's the reliability of knowing whether a sequence of bytes is a
string or not.

One thing I find that's neat about it is in class files there's all
sorts of neat URLs (given the URL happy nature of Java) embedded in
applets on the web often. (* granted, normal GNU "strings" will find
these too... except that it'll print a lot of garbage)
-- 
Adrian HAVILL
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