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From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
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Subject: Re: Nulls and Binary editors (was: Re: EDITORS -> EMACS)
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Date: 21 Apr 91 02:54:08 GMT
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In-Reply-To: davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 20 Apr 91 22:21:55 GMT

>>>>> On 20 Apr 91 22:21:55 GMT, davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") said:

John> It seems that editors which allow binary files to be edited (eg
John> GNU emacs) do not take this approach.  I would much rather edit
John> a file which formats the binary characters in nice easy to read
John> columns.

These GNU Emacs add-ons sound like they do:

		   Emacs Lisp Code Apropos -- "hex"


hexl-mode	  89-05-24
     Keith Gabryelski, <ag@cbmvax.commodore.com>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/s-is/misc/hexl-mode.el.Z
                                                       [^as-is !]

     Edit a file in a hex dump format.
hex (1.0)	  89-05-29
     andy@ernie.berkeley.edu, <slcpi!treed, treed@shearson.com>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/as-is/misc/hex.Z
     Binary editing mode.