[Info-vax] Hex editor for VMS Alpha ?

[Paul Sture]

On 2017-07-10, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> 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 ?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Simon.
>>> 
>>
>> 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.
>

What exactly do you mean by "binary files"?

I've used Datatrieve in the past to edit binary data within RMS files.

Does a VMS port of xxd exist?

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