Editing binaries
Patrick Barron
pdb at sei.cmu.edu
Sat Oct 15 02:28:09 AEST 1988
In article <4596 at mtgzz.att.com> avr at mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) writes:
>[...] Just read them in with
>:r !od -c file
>and write them out, after editing, with
>:w !rod -c >file
>which is a piece of cake. So please don't tell me I can't do something just
>because YOU don't know how. Some of us use tools, you know.
And please don't assume that we all have whatever tools you have. Where
do I get this "rod" command (which I assume is "reverse octal dump")? It
doesn't exist on 4.3BSD, Ultrix 2.2, or my Unix PC (under Unix 3.51) at home.
--Pat.
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