viewing images in text or ascii code

I don't want to view the image with a image editor

[digi_mind]

I would like to open an image in the way that this one is saved to the disk, meaning that I don't want to see the image it self, but the code behind this one.

Is it possible? How?

[outrun]

Although I dont know what you want to do, you could rename the image to *.txt file or something along those lines or open it in a hex editor, which displays the ascii version of it as well.

regards,
Mark

[Birdman]

Open it in Notepad. I do it accidentally on my ftp program all the time.

[tobyink]

cat myimage.png

[digi_mind]

Thanks for your answers.

The problem is that I can open the image witl notepad, the vi command, jpico and other ones.

What I want to do is this:

Open the image with any of those text editors, then I want to select the text displayed by the editor, copy the text and paste in an other text editor. Then I want to save the new code that I just pasted in the editor and open the image.