On Thu, 07 May 2015 09:16:20 +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > I have a DOS program I need to modify. I need to be able to load an DOS > EXE file, and hopefully using a gui, search for ascii text and 8 byte > floating point numbers in INTEL format and modify them. Then when I > write the file it still needs to be be executable. > > If it has a patch mode, where I can compare the patched version to the > original and get a diff type output, I would really be happy.
You can use `hexl-mode' in Emacs. To hex-edit a file use the `hexl-find-file' Emacs command. To compare the 2 files use `cmp' or `diff' on the output of `od -t x1 <file>`. Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7976-561 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
