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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Out_File , excess line
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:32:48 +0000
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> So, if you Unbounded_String'Write "foo", you will get
> - 4 bytes containing binary 1, the first index of the content
> - 4 bytes containing binary 3, the last index of the content
> - 3 bytes of content, 'f' 'o' 'o'.
>
> Which looks nothing like a text file.

The tool of choice here (on Unix systems) is 'od'; 'od -c test' shows
and interprets the file contents byte-by-byte.