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Zhuo Zang

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Jul 30, 1992, 4:46:28 PM7/30/92
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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.

Thanks in advance!

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Zhuo Zang
University of Florida email: zz...@stat.ufl.edu

Peter Reilley

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Jul 31, 1992, 7:58:43 AM7/31/92
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zz...@whale.stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang) writes:

>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.

BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
editor. Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
file is possible with BEAV. You can insert or delete in the middle of
a file thereby changing it's size. You can edit multiple files in
multiple windows and cut and paste between them. You can display and
edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats. You
can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
Motorola byte ordering. You can send the formatted display mode to a
file or printer.

BEAV is based on the source for emacs for display and keyboard handling
functions. The binary file handling and display formats are special
to BEAV. There is a full manual included in this release. There
are makefiles for unix, xenix 286, AmigaDOS, and MSC 5.1 under DOS. The
old Wang PC is supported. This has been tested on 286 and 386 PC's under
SCO UNIX and XENIX and AIX on a RS6000. There are a number of makefiles
included, select the appropriate one and rename it to makefile.

BEAV is available various archives, on SIMTEL20 it is;

PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV132.ZIP MSDOS executable and doc

PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV132S.ZIP source and doc

I am willing to maintain BEAV and will entertain suggestions for
modifications and/or bug fixes. I can be reached at;

p...@wiis.wang.com

or at;

Peter Reilley
19 Heritage Cir.
Hudson, N.H. 03051
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Lars Soltau

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Jul 31, 1992, 10:22:19 AM7/31/92
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>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 92 20:46:28 GMT, zz...@whale.stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang) said:

> 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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Cliff Tuel

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Jul 31, 1992, 11:11:51 PM7/31/92
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zz...@whale.stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang) said...

|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.

Get bed from sunic.sunet.se in /SRC/sec1/bed/. It pre-processes the
file into text, calls your favorite editor, then post-processes back
into binary.

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