>> I think it will be less confusing if  hexdump (default) display
"bytes".

>The hexdump is NetBSD-current has the cool "-C" option:

>% hexdump -C test_hex
>00000000  31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38  39 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
|1234567891234567|
>00000010  38 39 30 31 32 33 34 35  36 37 38 39 30 31 32 0a
|890123456789012.|
>00000020
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>Name: Dave Huang

My mistake. I should have read the  man page before posting .. Thanks
for the info.
Yes -C is cool and it should be the default (-:

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Shashi Peter Mara, pmara@cactus.org