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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binary Editor Wanted
Message-ID: <17886@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 89 04:08:33 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu <NELSON.89Feb20204753@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> :
-   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

I just tried my microemacs -- it'll start up on a binary file, but
evidently stops reading as soon as it finds a 0x1a (ctrl-Z).  I could
recompile it with binary file modes, I guess, but it's not a priority.
The distributed binaries probably also use text-mode file i/o.