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From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386
Message-ID: <it1.666775152@ra>
Date: 17 Feb 91 07:19:12 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.161201.18164@nstar.rn.com> <kBTHX1w163w@aegis.or.jp> <1991Feb16.162814.13117@unixland.uucp>
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In <1991Feb16.162814.13117@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>In article <kBTHX1w163w@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.UUCP (Dave McLane) writes:
>>edit binary stuff but fortunately I'm running VPIX and am a long
>>time user of SYMDEB.EXE which worked fine.

>This is a good question (for those of us who don't know) -- how does
>one edit binaries in Unix?  Is there a utility like Norton out there
>(yes, I know Norton is available for ISC, but I'm running Esix).

  Check out fm, a curses based binary editor for Unix.  It's available
  in comp.sources.misc, volume12.

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