Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Binary Editor Wanted Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 89 01:47:53 GMT References: <10420@drutx.ATT.COM> <653@mrsvr.UUCP> <819@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <1152@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 14 In-reply-to: news@csd4.milw.wisc.edu's message of 20 Feb 89 18:05:46 GMT In article <1152@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> news@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Net news owner) writes: [Line eater strikes again!] was that it could be used to edit itself (search and replace a string). Check out Jove, Microemacs, or one of the other emacsi at Simtel20. I don't believe that either of the above can edit themselves. On the other hand, Freemacs can edit any binary file less than 63K in length. Pointers to Freemacs availability on request. -russ -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama