On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 06:13:53PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 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 think it means that all the bytes in between were zeros. 

Myself, I'm a fan of 'hexdump -C'. Sometimes I strip off the numbers
at the front of each line. 
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