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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Need DOS hex editor
Message-ID: <903@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 88 00:40:20 GMT
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Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
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Keywords: "Line wrap," full ASCII character set editing


I have frequently been in the position of wanting to edit data files,
either binary or text.  The files have no carriage returns or line
feeds, and can have characters on the full 255 range.  

It seems that the tools available to me divide into two groups.  The
first are text editors (I've used MicroEmacs, Brief, Wordstar, Norton
Editor) which choke and gag on these files, and when they can take them
(e.g.  Norton Editor) I have physical lines scrolling way the hell off
the screen. 

The second class are hex editors (e.g. Norton Utilities, PC Tools, a PD
program called FM) which allow hex and decimal editting, and wrap nicely
into 20 or so character lines, but don't allow inserting, deleting,
search, mark, cut, copy, etc.

Any suggestions?

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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician (sanity regained)
| Systems Science Department, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
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