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From: peggy@pyr.gatech.EDU (PEGGY PIEROTTI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Binary Editors
Message-ID: <8336@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 May 89 21:56:02 GMT
References: <1538@cod.NOSC.MIL> <207@ssp7.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: peggy@pyr.UUCP (PEGGY PIEROTTI)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <207@ssp7.idca.tds.philips.nl> nyenhuis@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (G. Nijenhuis) writes:
>In article <1538@cod.NOSC.MIL> desmond@cod.NOSC.MIL (J. Desmond) writes:
>>I've looked at a great number of binary file editors and have found
>>none that have insertion capability.  I would like to use it to 
>
>The QED editor that comes with QDOS II (from Gazelle Systems) has a binary
>mode with insertion capability. There are however almost no other features
>in this mode (like find e.t.c.).
>#  Gerrit Nijenhuis                 Internet :  nyenhuis@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl  # 

This  is true, but you can easily switch back and forth between
text and binary.  "find" works fine in text mode for finding arbitrary
byte patterns, and 'h' is all it takes to switch to hex mode.
No REs in find, though.

I use it this way fairly often.
cris


Cris Simpson 
Computer Engineer