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From: avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Editing binaries
Summary: I do do it with vi
Keywords: sysV
Message-ID: <4596@mtgzz.att.com>
Date: 13 Oct 88 20:26:37 GMT
References: <286@mccc.UUCP> <390@westmark.UUCP> <305@mccc.UUCP> <1162@mrspoc.UUCP> <2965@ci.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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In article <2965@ci.sei.cmu.edu>, pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) writes:
> Or, you could always use my favorite solution - just crank up emacs
> (or whatever your favorite editor is, but not ed or ex/edit/vi, 'cause
> they can't do this), and change it in the binary.

BULLSHIT. I edit binary files with vi all the time. Just read them in with
:r !od -c file
and write them out, after editing, with
:w !rod -c >file
which is a piece of cake. So please don't tell me I can't do something just
because YOU don't know how. Some of us use tools, you know.

					Adam Reed (avr@mtgzz.ATT.COM)