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- Herewith find BPATCH - a marvelously utile utility. While not of
- my original creation, I have been given permission to place in the
- public domain. I have made substantial modifications to the original
- source given to me. Specifically I cleaned it up a bit and made it
- work with SVR2 curses. Personally, I think it's pretty neat.
-
- OK - for those of you who may scream by now "WHAT THE HELL IS IT ALREADY?"
- I respond that it is a binary file editor and dump utility! That's
- right! You can dump your file in the nicely laid out side-by-side
- hex and ascii format or you can actually EDIT it at your terminal!
- Yes, I have seen the BED editor that came across the network.
- Unfortunately, it converted the entire file before and after editing.
- Bpatch, on the other hand, works with one 256 byte page at a time.
- It is marvelously useful for looking at things like raw disk UNIFY
- databases and even raw disks! While the man page may not be absolutely
- up to date, the online help is. Try the question mark (?) command.
-
- As always, I would love to hear about bugs/changes/enhancements/requests.
- Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA
- Just part of the stock at "Uncle Bene's Farm"
- {cdp,engfocus,idi,oliveb,opusys,plx,pyramid,tolerant}!bene!luke!itkin
-
- Addition by the moderator:
- I have added code, surrounded by #ifdef MOD_HAX, that gets bpatch
- (barely?) working on my 4.2 system. I would be very interested in
- publishing a set of diffs that's less of a hack. Oh yeah: I also
- wrote the Makefile.
- /Rich $alz
-