[fa.info-vax] binary file mungers

AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*) (10/07/85)

A while back I wrote a thing called BASH to move .exe files across RS232 lines
[before Kermit had a fixed-512 mode].  It could be modified to do huge 
records like in backup savesets.  It doesn't exactly hexify; it uses the 93
printing characters in various funny combinations to use a tad less space
than straight hexification.  It includes little frobs for delimiting records,
so I could also move object files with it.  Let me know if you run out of 
options; it could be made to work the way you want.

_H*
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KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA (Keith F. Lynch) (10/08/85)

  I wrote a Fortran program UNDUMP that creates an .EXE file from the
output of the VMS DUMP command.  For instance if you have a file FOO.EXE
you can do DUMP FOO.EXE /OUTPUT=FOO.DMP and then UNDUMP will re-create
FOO.EXE from FOO.DMP.  The idea is that since FOO.DMP is an ASCII file,
you can copy it over asynch lines to another computer by almost any
method, or you can store it on a non-VAX computer.
  The advantage of UNDUMP is that no special software is needed on the
source machine, only DUMP which you already have.  The disadvantage is
that the .DMP file is about 3 times the size of the .EXE file.
  I will mail it to INFO-VAX is there is any interest.
								...Keith