Use the following newform command to reformat the binary data in
latlon.bin to its native ASCII format:
newform latlon.bin -o latlon.rf
The ASCII file latlon.rf matches (but does not overwrite) the
original input file latlon.dat. You can confirm this by using a
file comparison utility. The diff command is generally available on
Unix platforms.
To use diff to compare the latlon ASCII files, enter the
command:
diff latlon.dat latlon.rf
The output should be something along these lines:
Files are effectively identical.
Several implementations of the diff utility don't print anything
if the two input files are identical.
NOTE: The diff utility may detect a difference in other similar
cases because FreeForm ND adds a leading zero in front of a decimal and interprets a blank as a zero if the field is described as a number. (A blank described as a character is interpreted as a blank.)