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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Editing binaries
Message-ID: <3680040@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 88 23:29:09 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.unix.questions / avr@mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) / Oct 13, 1988 /
>[...] 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. [...]

And if you don't have rod, or if you think using it is just too easy, you
can just use
	:r !uuencode file
and
	:w !uudecode
instead.


Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore

Yeah, yeah, it's a joke.