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Article #74Re: [Q] Binary Edit Tool
From: Tetsuji Koyama
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:44
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 11:44
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THE
BEAV
Binary Editor And Viewer
Manual Copyright 1991
Version 1.32
November 8, 1991
By
Peter Reilley
19 Heritage Cir.
Hudson, N.H. 03051
pvr@wang.com
BEAV source and executable can be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes.
1
BEAV User Manual
1.0 Introduction
BEAV is an editor that brings the features of a powerful
full screen editor to the editing of binary files. It is the
only editor that I know of that does that.
When you need to edit a non-text file you generally have
two choices; a text editor or a file zap type editor. Each
choice has significant disadvantages.
Text editors expect the file to be formatted in a certain
way. At a minimum they expect that all lines be terminated by a
carriage return or line feed and be limited in length. There is
no line length limit with BEAV. Most text editors get confused
by bytes that are outside of the normal range (20 to 7E HEX).
In BEAV no special characters such as carriage return or line
feed affect the display aside from producing their numeric value.
BEAV can edit any file no matter the format.
The other choice is to use a file zap type editor which can
edit a binary file without difficulty. These editors are often
very limited in their features and capabilities. Most file zap
programs can edit a file only in HEX or ASCII. They generally
operate on a sector basis and because of this they cannot insert
or delete data in the middle of the file.
All these limits are eliminated in BEAV. You can edit a
file in HEX, ASCII, EBCDIC, OCTAL, DECIMAL, and BINARY. You can
search or search and replace in any of these modes. Data can be
displayed in BYTE, WORD, or DOUBLE WORD formats. While
displaying WORDS or DOUBLE WORDS the data can be displayed in
INTEL's or MOTOROLA's byte swap format. Data of any length can
be inserted at any point in the file. The source of this data
can be the keyboard, another buffer, of a file. Any data that
is being displayed can be sent to a printer in the displayed
format. Files that are bigger than memory can be handled.
Some users may recognize the similarity to the EMACS text
editor that was written by Richard Stallman at MIT. This is not
a coincidence. I attempted to keep as much of the user
interface and functionality as possible given the very different
tasks of EMACS and BEAV.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!sranha!artsgw!koyama From: koyama@artstech.co.jp (Tetsuji Koyama) Newsgroups: fj.sys.pc98 Subject: Re: [Q] Binary Edit Tool Message-ID: <KOYAMA.92Nov4204432@garamon.artstech.co.jp> Date: 4 Nov 92 11:44:32 GMT References: <HOTARU.92Nov4135157@polaris.chubu-sc.toshiba.CO.JP> Sender: news@artstech.co.jp Followup-To: fj.sys.pc98 Distribution: fj Organization: ARTS TECH Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 104 Nntp-Posting-Host: garamon In-reply-to: hotaru@chubu-sc.toshiba.CO.JP's message of 4 Nov 92 04:51:57 GMT