Editing binaries

[Jacob Gore]

/ comp.unix.questions / avr at mtgzz.att.com (a.v.reed) / Oct 13, 1988 /
>[...] I edit binary files with vi all the time. Just read them in with
>:r !od -c file
>and write them out, after editing, with
>:w !rod -c >file
>which is a piece of cake. [...]

And if you don't have rod, or if you think using it is just too easy, you
can just use
	:r !uuencode file
and
	:w !uudecode
instead.


Jacob Gore				Gore at EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore

Yeah, yeah, it's a joke.