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- From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
- Subject: Re: Looking for good binary editor
- Organization: eng
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:44:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.114459.10120@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <bs62qj.e8a@wang.com> pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley) writes:
- >
- > BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
- >editor. Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
- >file is possible with BEAV. You can insert or delete in the middle of
- >a file thereby changing it's size. You can edit multiple files in
- >multiple windows and cut and paste between them. You can display and
- >edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats. You
- >can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
- >Motorola byte ordering. You can send the formatted display mode to a
- >file or printer.
-
- I recently check BEAV because I was looking also for an editor without
- the 256 byte page behaviour. BEAV looked right, however the command key
- handling is next to impossible. I needed to dig deep into the manual to find
- out how to operate it. For a long time this was the first program I could
- not find to exit it. I finally rebooted the PC. Many editors use easy
- commands at least for simple opereations, but not BEAV.
-
- My result: I deleted BEAV and still use FM. I don't need the advanced
- features anyway.
-
- Jurgen
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- Jurgen Bartels, Motorola, Taunusstein near Wiesbaden Germany
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- Jurgen_Bartels@p11.f29.n249.z2.fidonet.org <---- if above don't work, use this
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- FIDO: Jurgen Bartels 2:249/29.11
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