CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET (Kevin.Cole@KL.SRI.Com,@wiscvm.wisc.edu:CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET, Gallaudet.U.@KL.SRI.Com,@wiscvm.wisc.ed) (07/06/87)
Is there anything out there that will allow editing of a non-ASCII file in a nice straightforward manner? (For those of you on IBM (Yeuch!) PC's, I'm looking for something that behaves similar to the DUMP format screen of the Norton Utilities NU.) Something that will not try to interpret the file, but will let me go in an toggle bits to my hearts content without getting all bent out of shape about it. Maybe a display in hex on the left and ASCII on the right, or toggle between different windows. It doesn't have to be cursor controled as long as the commands are fairly logical. The DEC-10 used to have something like that. I think it was called BITED and it looked like a poor man's SOS for binary files, but it did the job. Thanx. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Cole <Flatline> KJCOLE@GALLUA.BITNET Center for Assessment and Demographic Studies (CADS) CADS_COLE@GALLUA.BITNET Gallaudet Research Institute (GRI) Gallaudet University Washington, D.C. 20002 (202) 651-5575
mende@aramis.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende) (07/07/87)
you can always use GNUemacs. It handles binary files very well.
True, it does not have a hex conversion utility (you could write one).
Bob
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mende@rutgers.edu {...}!rutgers!mende mende@zodiac.bitnetiwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor) (07/10/87)
On the 1984 Fall DECUS tape is a very nice binary editor called VFE, it will
search for items and modify the file contents, it can display blocks in
hex,decimal or ascii and is fast. I dont know if its PD, but there should be no problem
in obtaining it from DECUS; it is very nicely written and easy to modify.
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