Here is a little utility program that will run from the DOS prompt or in the Command window.
The program will generate a txt file containing the Binary and ASCII characters contained in the source file.
To use the program type: binascii [input file name ] [output file name]
example: binascii autoexec.bat autoexec.txt
binascii will create the .txt file from the .bat file.
The txt file can be viewed with notepad etc.
Binary to ascii conversion program