Some somewhat simple questions
 

All right, I have a few questions here and I'm just kinda left wondering.

First, can someone tell me how to get the string representation of an executable file?

How do I find out when the last system reboot was?

Is there a Pascal compiler that is usually included with linux (if there is I can't find it.)?

#1... not sure what you mean (there definitely are no .exe's )
try you'll get a listing like
/etc/auto_home: English text
/etc/auto_master: ascii text
/etc/autopush: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, statically linked, stripped
/etc/bootptab: ascii text
/etc/cfgadm: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped
/etc/chroot: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped

is that what your looking for?

#2. uptime

#3. Pascal? ...yikes :cry: ....dunno

what distro? slackware comes with pascal on it's disks (it's not normally selected tho)

Tell you the truth
 

Well to tell you the truth I'm really not sure myself what this person means by string representation. This is basically a homework assignment that I am looking for a little help with. The other anwers were helpful though. Thanks, If anyone else would like to add, please do :)

BTW It as against the rules to help with homework.

string representation eh?
shove a cat <file> in their face, if they complain tell em you dind't know what they wanted.

btw, I might have been confusing pascal and python in my last post, having had to have both I mix up the two a lot.

there's free-pascal on linuxpackages.net, try looking for that at your local distro's package vendor.

Nah
 

No, it's not against the rules to get help with homework, it's against the rules to get help with tests. Man some people, as a matter of fact the teacher encouraged us to look such things up whever we could find the answers.