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- From: andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Looking for a "Hex" editor
- Message-ID: <4475@teslab.lab.oz.au>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 04:36:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.144313.14489@am.sublink.org>
- Organization: Technology Services, Chief Secretary's Dept, Sydney
- Lines: 14
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- alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
- : legend@cheshire.oxy.edu (Linda A. Malcor) writes (FOUR times!-):
- : :> As there are no line ending characters in these files
- : :>normal Unix tools cannot handle them properly. The kinds of
- : :>changes we want to make are small, adding or deleting ....
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- We use the text editor Epsilon (for Xenix) here and it has no
- problems handling lines of any length.
-
- : vi.xvi.tar.Z Binary editor with VI command subset. Excelent! A must!
-
- As someone who prefers Emacs style keys I like the binary editor
- beav. It is also extremely powerful (more than xvi?) and can be
- completely reconfigured if you prefer another editor.
-