You don't need to use those old programs. You could access many traditional Unix editors from within Terminal. Within Terminal you can access both vi and vim. If you are very familiar with Darwin within OS X you can establish Administrative status such that you can also use sudo within Terminal and activate the use of vi/vim within Admintrative mode which means you can access and use serious and advanced features of vi/vim which goes way beyond what Hexedit, Resedit or Apple's programming environment is capable of. You need to have a solid understanding of modifying bashrc and vim so that you can instruct vim to activate advanced features by accessing bashrc first.
If you are truly interested in vim go to http://www.vim.org/ to learn more. Keep in mind that vim/vi have been qualified as true a Turing system or program. Of course should you get into serious programming you may find that OS X falls short regarding what is possible to do as it is designed to be a client system. If you want to get into server programming which vim is capable of you'll either have to purchase OS X Server (from Apple) or partition your HD and install Linux. Linux is both a server and a client system, and you can program freely for either one within the General Public License designation. All the best... On 1/22/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In macintosh there are two programs, Hxedit and Resedit, which let you see > the contents of a file without opening it, Hexedit especially which > converts > the binary into text. I have always used these programmes with suspect > files. > The ones in Windows are named so but do not do what the mac software does. > Are there any similar programmes in Linux? > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
