Cutting two colums and converting them to ascii (.txt) format

Hello Gurus,

I have a file in which two columns contains binary data i want to cut those two binary columns convert them to ascii and process the file.

i tried using cut command..i am able to cut but how can i convert them from binary to ascii and paste them in their original position.

Pls guide me to resolve this.

--Mora

What does "binary data" mean?

Can we have samples?