Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!alberta!auvax!kevinc
From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin Barry Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need DOS hex editor
Summary: One that was, maybe still is!
Keywords: "Line wrap," full ASCII character set editing
Message-ID: <550@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 22:44:41 GMT
References: <903@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
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Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <903@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
> 
> 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?
> 
> O---------------------------------------------------------------------->
> | Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician (sanity regained)
> | Systems Science Department, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
> | vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
> V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .

Cliff, one editor that I saw a while back was the Professional Editor
by SSI (the Wordperfect folks).  As a matter of fact I tend to
photocopy the title pages of software that I find useful so that when I
can afford them I go back and buy them.

Wait a minute - a friend has a copy of this thing just let me phone him
...............
..
.

Ah Ah!

P-Edit
Professional Program Editor
SSI Software (I think these are the WordPerfect folks now)
Orem, Utah 

Full screen editing
no program limit on file size
cut and paste
macros
special characters
on-line help
global search and replace
you can display 1-255 characters in a variety of ways

Min mem 40Kb
Max mem used 167Kb
number of pages per file 200 (pages are of arbitrary length)
number of lines per page 65,535
number of characters per line 63,400
number of characters per display 63,400

can edit binary file (start in binary mode with command line parameter
/b)

You know, this sounds great amybe I'll give them a call myself.

Hope this helps
ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc (Kevin Crocker Athabasca University)
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