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From: pbach@itsgw.RPI.EDU (Peter Lauterbach)
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Subject: Binary editors
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Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 13:44:04 EDT
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	In working in an administrative enviroment, it often comes
to pass that a user will come to me with a trashed disk. I can recover
just about anything with Norton and/or Mace. The big problem that I have
is trying to take a munged database or wp file, and try to edit it with
PC Write 2.7. This actually works great for files < 64K. I've tried RED,
which is very fast, but can't handle lines over 80 columns. The only thing
that seems to fit the bill is Wordstar, and it is soooo sloooow. Even the
new version of MicroEmacs barfs if there is a lot of extended characters
and long lines(unless I don't know how, but I haven't read the Scribe formatted
documentation :-) ). What I need pointers to are as follows...

		1) Must be FAST.

		2) Able to handle files > 64K ( up to disk size)

		3) Must be able to treat extended characters set as just that.

		4) Keyboard macros and or procedures would be nice.

		5) Relativley cheap, under $100.

	Reply directly to me with whatever experience you've had with this 
stuff, and I'll summarize for the net.
Thanks.
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