PROBLEM with another binary file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Chubler_XL...
(OSX 10.7.5, default bash terminal.)
Good morning all...
Using your newer code it still has a FF, (Form Feed), character. Effectively this is a page of whitespaces. ;o)

Last login: Wed Feb  4 07:34:09 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> strings -n 1 binary.bin | LC_CTYPE=C tr -d '\n' > text.txt
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> cat text.txt
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
                !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> 
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> hexdump -C text.txt
00000000  0c 20 21 22 23 24 25 26  27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e  |. !"#$%&'()*+,-.|
00000010  2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36  37 38 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e  |/0123456789:;<=>|
00000020  3f 40 41 42 43 44 45 46  47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e  |?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMN|
00000030  4f 50 51 52 53 54 55 56  57 58 59 5a 5b 5c 5d 5e  |OPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^|
00000040  5f 60 61 62 63 64 65 66  67 68 69 6a 6b 6c 6d 6e  |_`abcdefghijklmn|
00000050  6f 70 71 72 73 74 75 76  77 78 79 7a 7b 7c 7d 7e  |opqrstuvwxyz{|}~|
00000060  0c 20 21 22 23 24 25 26  27 28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e  |. !"#$%&'()*+,-.|
00000070  2f 30 31 32 33 34 35 36  37 38 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e  |/0123456789:;<=>|
00000080  3f 40 41 42 43 44 45 46  47 48 49 4a 4b 4c 4d 4e  |?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMN|
00000090  4f 50 51 52 53 54 55 56  57 58 59 5a 5b 5c 5d 5e  |OPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^|
000000a0  5f 60 61 62 63 64 65 66  67 68 69 6a 6b 6c 6d 6e  |_`abcdefghijklmn|
000000b0  6f 70 71 72 73 74 75 76  77 78 79 7a 7b 7c 7d 7e  |opqrstuvwxyz{|}~|
000000c0
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> _
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Unless it's doing something weird like trying to parse unicode characters, there should be no such thing as an 'illegal byte sequence' in tr. Try LOCALE="C" tr ...