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.