[Info-vax] Hex editor for VMS Alpha ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2017-07-09 21:33:38 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> What are people using for a hex editor on VMS Alpha these days ?

OpenVMS is at a relative competitive disadvantage here, with provided 
tools such as PATCH /ABSOLUTE being a salient example of tooling from 
the VAX era.

What's used locally on OpenVMS?   xxd.  Then open the dump file in vim, 
or in some other editor.   Then use xxd to generate the patched file.

http://www.polarhome.com/vim/

On other systems, Capstone or IDA or such...

http://www.capstone-engine.org
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
https://github.com/plasma-disassembler/plasma

Add on binwalk and some other tools, or diff/patch depending on what 
I'm working on.

https://tools.kali.org/forensics/binwalk
http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html

Kali is handy to have around, too.


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