[Info-vax] Hex editor for VMS Alpha ?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2017-07-09, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/9/2017 8:06 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2017-07-09, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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)?
>

No. Without going into too much detail, the contents of the files
can either be organised or unstructured (usually the latter).

Brian's PATCH/ABSOLUTE revelation was certainly very interesting
as I didn't know about that being available on Alpha. I've just
had a look and the PATCH interface is rather basic if you are
trying to do something complicated (it's fine for simple jobs
however) so I may just end up going with creating my own tool.

Thanks,

Simon.

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