weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) (10/14/88)
In article <2965@ci.sei.cmu.edu>, pdb@sei (Patrick Barron) writes: >[...] change it in the binary. Just as long as the string you're >changing is of equal or greater length than what you're changing it to, >you'll be fine. Be careful not to change the total size of the file. >Sort of grody, but it works. Long ago I wrote a fudge.c that takes octal addresses (gleaned from `od -s') and then does the above interactively and safely. I still have it around somwhere, in case anyone is interested. I wrote it to change the rogue monsters to faculty names, and to cheat on the die rolls. It was kind of fun to watch people surprised by killer hobgoblins. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720