[Info-vax] Hex editor for VMS Alpha ?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Jul 9 20:12:16 EDT 2017


On 7/9/2017 8:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2017-07-09, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2017-07-09 kl. 23:33, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>> What are people using for a hex editor on VMS Alpha these days ?
>>
>> Depends on what the goal is. Are you talking about interactive
>> or automated/batch? For display-only, DUMP. For other tasks it
>> highly depends in what the task is about. Sometimes lifting the
>> file over to my PC and run UltraEdit on it which has a nice hex
>> display mode with edit on any file.
> 
> Interactive editing of binary files on VMS.
> 
> Since I would be editing the files many times within a short period,
> moving the files to another box and back again would be a pain.

Does the files have a well defined and documented  format aka a sequence
of C structs (or similar - it could be another language but C is just
frequently used for such stuff)?

Arne





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