Re: Binary Editor

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 08:44:29 +1000
Message-ID: <ah7gbc$dcu$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>

Wrrrrrgh.

Sounds suspiciously Unix.

I realise they both support XP and other Windows variants, but honestly.... us Windows kiddies are just not up for such complexity at this stage in our retarded development lifecycles.

But thanks for the suggestions, anyway.

Regards
HJR "Gary Gapinski" <glg_at_apk.net> wrote in message news:3D369DBF.E52B1922_at_apk.net...
> "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > You'll have to forgive a humble Windows user, but I would like to be
> > referred to an editor which runs on Windows, but lets you monkey around
with
> > binary data, and doesn't display it as a bunch of Euro symbols, black
dots,
> > and assorted text-based mish-mash.
> >
> > I'm experimenting with poking around inside an archive log, a data file
and
> > so on, and would like a suggestion as to the best Windows (XP) editor to
use
> > for the occasion.
> >
> > Regards,
> > HJR
>
> Try
>
> http://www.xemacs.org/
>
> or
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
>
> Both can handle large files and non-printable characters.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
Received on Thu Jul 18 2002 - 17:44:29 CDT