Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!burleigh
From: burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Binary Editor Wanted
Message-ID: <3274@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 89 05:35:04 GMT
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In article <13413@ncoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>As quoted from <3216@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> by burleigh@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (frank burleigh):
>| You folks might try WordPerfect Corp's Program Editor, which is part of
>| their Library 2.0 group of utilities.  While PE is meant as a straight
>
>Gack.  WP's "reveal codes" is a feature from Hell.  If I want a non-WYSIWYG
>editor, I'll use Jove (possibly combined with some form of ?roff or TeX),
>thank you.

Your reference is ambiguous to me.  I think you think I mean
WordPerfect.  I don't.  I mean the Program Editor (PE) sold by
WordPerfect Corporation.  It is a different (and not quite so highly
respected) product altogether for straight ASCII.  I was only saying
that the reveal codes of *this* product shows the file in hex in the
bottom half of the screen.

I once had an archive file go bad.  I recovered most of my data by
locating each file's header in the arc, turning on block, and going till
the next header.  Then I pasted the block to the other window.  Messy,
but it worked, and thus my suggestion.

-- 
Frank Burleigh
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Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405