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From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...)
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Subject: Wanted: binary file editor
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:26:24 GMT
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Help!  I need a program that can do search-and-replace of text strings
in a DOS binary file.

Restrictions:

*  The patching program must be able to change the length of the strings
   found (i.e., replacing all occurrences of "foo" with "FUBAR" must be
   permitted).

*  The patching program must be able to run in batch mode, with either
   command-line parameters or a script read from stdin.

Lots of binary file editors exist, but none that I have seen can satisfy
those two needs.  

Any suggestions?
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