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- From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil)
- Subject: Re: Looking for good binary editor
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.191307.10780@cs.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:13:07 GMT
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- dougs@tvnews.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens) writes:
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- >I'm looking for an editor that operate on binary files. Insert editing
- >would be nice but is not essential. The type of screen I'm looking for
- >includes the address/offset for the data within the file, the hex
- >dump of the data, and the ASCII interpretation:
-
- > 0 67 72 61 66 3A 20 09 67 72 61 70 68 69 63 73 20 graf: .graphics
- > 10 73 6F 66 74 77 61 72 65 0D 0A 0D 0A 09 6F 72 63 software.....orc
- > 20 61 64 3A 09 09 4F 72 63 61 64 0D 0A 0D 0A 09 70 ad:..Orcad.....p
- > 30 7A 70 3A 09 09 50 69 7A 61 7A 7A 2D 50 6C 75 73 zp:..Pizazz-Plus
- > 40 0D 0A 0D 0A 6E 75 6D 3A 20 09 6E 75 6D 65 72 69 ....num: .numeri
-
- >ANA is very close to what I need, but will only write out a one-page edit
- >buffer to a file, not the entire file.
-
- >Please reply (instead of follow-up). Thanks.
-
- SLIM can do pretty much what you want. It is basically a text editor,
- but it can work on binary files as well. The HeX value of the current
- char is dispalyed in the status line. The main drawback is that your
- are restricted to 64KB files.
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- Joseph (Yossi) Gil {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!yogi
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