Formatting in the text

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From: Kam C. Tsang
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1992 00:03

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   Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 11:53:51 +0100
   From: El Gordo <G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk>


   > From: bill@edu.arizona.nsma (Bill Skaggs)
   > [...]
   > I don't agree.  It would certainly be a bad idea to have "universal"
   > formatting, such as Word uses -- where every data file must contain
   > specific formatting information in order for the editor to be able to
   > handle it.  But that was never in the cards anyway.
   > [...]

   I somtimes use Epoch to edit binaries; usually an a.out when a text
   string need to change and the sources are large or lost.

   What else do we need? :-) "Specific formats"?

   Gordon.
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Try changing some strings in your binary and make it longer than what
it used to be.  It's not that magical...

-kam <tsang@isi.com>

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