On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 12:59:39AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
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> Could somebody please explain about "Running Strings"?

The usual explanation is "man strings".  But for example:

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artemis:~ 
{20} % strings /dev/fs/C/WINDOWS/system32/nslookup.exe | tail -n 30
@(#) Copyright (c) 1985,1989 Regents of the University of California.
 All rights reserved.
@(#)nslookup.c  5.39 (Berkeley) 6/24/90
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
@(#)commands.l  5.13 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
-*-**********
**************************
**************************
@(#)debug.c     5.22 (Berkeley) 6/29/90
@(#)list.c      5.20 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
@(#)subr.c      5.22 (Berkeley) 8/3/90
@(#)skip.c      5.9 (Berkeley) 8/3/90
@(#)getinfo.c   5.22 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
@(#)send.c      5.17 (Berkeley) 6/29/90
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/
0123456789abcdef.


QISKNU?
\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcp\VParameters
\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcp\Parameters
\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Transient
\Registry\Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient
DDD@DDD@DDD@
DDD@DDD@
DDD@
",D@p
b"""
DD@DD@
artemis:~
{21} %
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This is on Windows XP, using the "strings" from Microsoft Services for
UNIX.