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- From: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Binary editor in Unix?
- Message-ID: <SPACE.92Jul31162233@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:22:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.204628.1378@eng.ufl.edu>
- Sender: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Der Bademeister)
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- In-Reply-To: zzang@whale.stat.ufl.edu's message of Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:46:28 GMT
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- >>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:46:28 GMT, zzang@whale.stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang) said:
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- > Hello,
- > Do we have any binary editor in Unix ?
- > I need to edit the strings in binary file sometimes
- > rather than re-configure and re-compile it.
-
- If you just want to change strings, use GNU emacs. Be sure to switch on
- overwrite-mode, though, because you had better not change the size of the
- executable.
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