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From: pvr@wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd Binary Editing: bed ported
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Date: 28 Oct 92 12:45:54 GMT
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eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
>I wonder if there is a better way of debugging at binary level,
>similar to power of MSDOS debug.
>How about gdb, has it got a binary editing mode?
>It can't seem to accept a file without any header.
I don't know if BEAV has been ported to 386bed yet but
I would like to see it. I have not installed 386bsd yet so
cannot do it myself. If someone does do the port please
send me the diff files and I will include them in the next release.
BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
editor. Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
file is possible with BEAV. You can insert or delete in the middle of
a file thereby changing it's size. You can edit multiple files in
multiple windows and cut and paste between them. You can display and
edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats. You
can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
Motorola byte ordering. You can send the formatted display mode to a
file or printer.
BEAV is based on the source for emacs for display and keyboard handling
functions. The binary file handling and display formats are special
to BEAV. There is a full manual included in this release. There
are makefiles for unix, xenix 286, AmigaDOS, and MSC 5.1 under DOS. The
old Wang PC is supported. This has been tested on 286 and 386 PC's under
SCO UNIX and XENIX and AIX on a RS6000. There are a number of makefiles
included, select the appropriate one and rename it to makefile.
BEAV is available various archives, on WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL it is;
PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV133.ZIP MSDOS executable and doc
PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV133S.ZIP source and doc
Version 1.33 (8/9/92) of BEAV contains the following
enhancements;
* A new command, screen-rows, allows you to change the
number of rows BEAV uses in the current screen. The command
can be issued anytime, the current windows will be adjusted
or killed as necessary.
* Floating point numbers can be displayed.
* BEAV uses the current screen color setting and does
not change them on exiting. Thanks to Derek Millar,
dmillar@ocf.berkeley.edu
* The processing of the beavrc file has been enhanced
to allow the processing of most commands.
* The default key binding for "n-way-combine" command
has been changed to ESC Ctl P. This makes ESC Ctl F
available for the "display-float" command.
* The copy-mark-to-cursor command would corrupt data if
the region to be copied was greater than 4096 bytes. This
is fixed.
* The replace command would fail to find all occurances
of a search pattern if the pattern fell on the boundary of
certain internal data structures. This is fixed.
* The memory used to handle screen images is now
allocated at load time rather than staticaly allocated.
This will allow systems with any screen size to be filled.
This depends on the variable "nrow" being properly set by
whatever terminal output file you have configured. The
default for "nrow" is the #define "NROW" as set in the
def.h file. The colunms remain fixed at 80.
* Under Unix, BEAV will use the full screen as reported
by the ioctl inquiry of the tty device. Previously, the
bottom line was not used.
* The prompt line is now erased properly.
* Not new to this release, but important for foreign
language users. All English text in BEAV is contained in
the file "text.c". It should be relatively easy to
translate and recompile. If someone wants to send me a
translated version of "text.c", I will include it in my
next release.
I am willing to maintain BEAV and will entertain suggestions for
modifications and/or bug fixes. I can be reached at;
pvr@wiis.wang.com
or at;
Peter Reilley
19 Heritage Cir.
Hudson, N.H. 03051
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