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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory!
Summary: Try bpatch if you don't have fsdb.  Or adb works nice too.
Message-ID: <17100@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:28:42 GMT
References: <705@lakart.UUCP> <374@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: TrishTrash Readers, Inc.
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In article <374@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes:
>Actually I have done this - but it is rather hamperred by not having a binary
>editor in UNIX . I used vi and it didnt work very well, there is nothing
>like rebooting and finding the whole of /usr/bin in lost+_found to
>convince you that a biunary editor would be nice.

vi won't edit a device file, and we already covered writing directories.
What exactly did you do???  vi tells me `Block special' when I say `vi
/dev/root'.

>(No - I am _NOT_ joking)

bpatch is in the UNIX archives.  I've been using it lately to locate
my shadow password file which was recently added to the free list ;-)

It is somewheres along the line of many ``SUPERZAP'' like programs.  I've
used it to patch just about everything I've need to patch.

I have the sources on this machine if anyone wants to fire up UUCP and
fetch them.  It is in /usr/archive/bpatch.shar.Z.  The phone number is
in the .sig, login as uucp [ or kermit ], no password, 2400 baud.
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