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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Binary file patcher wanted
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 18:18:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 18:18:57 1987
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As quoted from <2081@encore.UUCP> by adamm@encore.UUCP (Adam S. Moskowitz):
+---------------
|   I'm looking for a UN*X (actually, anything written in C will do) version of
| what is sometimes called "SuperZap".  Basically I want a program that will let
| me edit binary files in this format:
+---------------

Egads!  A NEWDOS/80 user in comp.unix.wizards!  ;-)

There are a number of these about.  There is a program which converts a
binary file to an ASCII one in a specified format (unfortunately, you must
pick exactly ONE, you cannot have both hex and ASCII at the same time) and
puts you in your favorite editor to edit it, then changes it back.  I have
written one which is a full-screen program to do this (I used to use NEWDOS
too ;-), but currently the only copy extant is 40 pages of hardcopy and
I'm not looking forward to typing it all in at the moment....  ;-)

On the other hand, it comes in handy, so I may do it anyway.  It also may
exist in an archive somewhere; I don't remember if I posted it to the net,
check for an archive listing in comp.sources.unix of "bed".  (...of course,
it might be someone else's editor instead of mine, but who cares?)
-- 
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