[Discussion] How to edit a binary file

[Steven Levine]

In <E1ODm4W-0000Zv-00 at pop-sarus.atl.sa.earthlink.net>, on 05/16/10
   at 05:29 PM, bokeny at earthlink.net said:

Hi,

>http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=picardy&pushbutton=Search

Interesting.

>>Why do you think the files should contain this string?  It all depends
>>on what Picardy encoding Picardy uses to store the files.  It could be
>>some sort of compressed binary  or it could be Unicode

>When I select FILE then OPEN, in the window the *.html pups up, therefore
>no files show up in the list of files since all ends with *.htm.

I see.  It's a naive to assume that something that shows up as text on the
screen will be stored in the same form in the binary executable.  It turns
out that Picardy is a Visi/Pro REXX app and it appears that the author
chose to encrypt the program code.  It's also buggy code that does not run
under Object REXX.

I doubt you will have much luck finding someone the crack the encryption
and patch the code.

>I have
>to edit (delete the "l" then hit ENTER) before I can select a file to
>open.

You do not really have a lot of options if you insist on using Picardy. 
There are lots of other editor that provide some level of html support. 
EPM has a couple of HTML addons available.  jEdit does too.

Steven

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