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| 434.1 | Maybe EMACS will work. | BIZET::TENNY | Dave Tenny | Thu Apr 02 1987 16:38 | 10 |
| I use emacs for most files,
I'm guessing it will work for a full binary file.
If you have any of the PD emacs, try it.
Certainly ED and EDIT are useless.
I haven't tried UEDIT, but maybe someone can shed light on that.
Dave
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| 434.2 | Various ZAPs | NOVA::RAVAN | | Thu Apr 02 1987 16:55 | 11 |
| Hmmm... I thought that EDIT was provided for exactly that reason
(binary files). I'll have to go home and read my AmigaDos book
again.
There are at least three PD editors: filezap, on Fish disk 14,
DiskZap, on Fish disk 50, and NewZAP on Fish disk 58. DiskZap
and NewZap are disk sector editors, not disk FILE editors.
From the slim descriptions on the Fish disks, it sounds like
you could use filezap.
-jim
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| 434.3 | filezap | HYSTER::DEARBORN | Trouvez Mieux | Thu Apr 02 1987 17:38 | 7 |
| I know that ED won't work.
I've used filezap with success. It took a little work to figure
it out though, without documentation.
Randy
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| 434.4 | EMACS | COOKIE::WECKER | Dave (Cum Grano Salis) Wecker | Thu Apr 02 1987 17:53 | 9 |
| Forget EMACS... it's a line oriented editor (unless you're using the original
TECO based version :-). It will truncate the "lines" that are longer than
n characters (typically n = 256).
I always write a quick little C program to patch binary files (you can also
use basic just as easily).
dave
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| 434.5 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Apr 02 1987 22:28 | 6 |
| EDIT will handle binary files as .2 says, not sure if it will
truncate long records though. I've used it to edit noise characters
out of ascii capture files with no problems. The hassle is that
it is awkward to use when you're used to a screen editor.
-dave
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| 434.6 | EDIT and binary data | BIZET::TENNY | Dave Tenny | Thu Apr 02 1987 22:57 | 12 |
| Long ago whan Kickstart 1.1 was young, I seem to recall
using EDIT on the _main.c routine supplied with the
Lattice compiler to weed out all the nulls they had at the
end of the file. Some of you may have done this too since _main.c wouldn't
compile with the nulls in there.
I thought edit didn't recognize them at all, let alone
allow me to manipulate them. Am I remembering incorrectly,
(possibly I was just using EDIT incorrectly)
or has EDIT become smarter with time?
Dave
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| 434.7 | FILEZAP ANYONE?? | POLAR::GOSLING | Art Gosling - Kanata Mfg. I.S. | Wed May 20 1987 16:09 | 15 |
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Anyone have FileZap sitting in a VAX directory that I could get at
(neither Dave Wecker's or Paul MacDonald's Amiga directories have
it)? Failing that, I would appreciate it if someone would upload
it for me. I need it to Zap PoPCLI as it conflicts with Uedit in
that the Esc-Amiga key combination is used by both applications,
and with POPCLI taking precedence, it is causing me no end of
grief when I have a runaway process in Uedit that I can't abort.
Thanks in advance
Art
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