Subject: od & hexdump show gap in file?
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/10/2003 18:13:53
Hi, 

What does '*' on the left margin mean in od and hexdump?  

...
00000090  00 00 00 00 74 30 30 31  37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
|....t0017.......|
000000a0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
|................|
*
00000140  02 01 00 61 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 
|...a............|
00000150  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 69 73 6f 
|.............iso|
...

I created this file sequentially a byte at a time with C++ via cout. 

Thanks,

--jkl