Potfile format - to hex or not to hex

[royce]

I know this is going to sound silly, but just to triple-confirm ... you're saying that you convert your plaintext dictionaries to hex strings, producing output like this (from the first ten lines of rockyou):

313233343536
3132333435
313233343536373839
70617373776f7264
696c6f7665796f75
7072696e63657373
31323334353637
726f636b796f75
3132333435363738
616263313233

... and then run those strings themselves, unmodified just as they appear above, through dive.rule?