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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you edit a binary file?
Message-ID: <35579@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Nov 90 13:12:03 GMT
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wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
in <1990Nov2.174632.16816@en.ecn.purdue.edu> writes:

	Perhaps I am overlooking something obvious, but how can I edit a couple
	bytes of a binary file.  Does a nice hexadecimal editor exist somewhere?

The following is the "header" of ``filepatch'' which was posted to alt.sources
recently; the program works fine on all systems upon which I installed it.

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	From: wmark@wb3ffv.ampr.org (Mark Winsor)
	Newsgroups: alt.sources
	Subject: Binary editor
	Message-ID: <3717@wb3ffv.ampr.org>
	Date: 13 Oct 90 16:06:38 GMT
	Organization: Advanced Business Solutions - Baltimore , MD
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	Here is a binary editor that i've found useful. It has only been
	tested in SYSV & SCO XENIX environments, but should be relatively easy
	to port. Do to the non-standard alternate character set mapping prior
	to SYSV3, the line drawing characters are replaced with, |, -, and +
	for those environments (or if your terminal doesn't support line
	drawing charaters).

	Mark S. Winsor
	Systems Analyst
	ProVAR, Inc.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]