SECURITY BUG IN INTERACTIVE UNIX SYSV386

Paul Nash paul at frcs.UUCP
Wed Feb 20 08:04:22 AEST 1991


Thus spake sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):

> In article <1991Feb16.162814.13117 at unixland.uucp> bill at unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
> >This is a good question (for those of us who don't know) -- how does
> >one edit binaries in Unix?  Is there a utility like Norton out there
> >(yes, I know Norton is available for ISC, but I'm running Esix).
>
> I always use emacs for that purpose.  It's quite handy at some things...

For those with limited disk space (and a shortage of META-keys),
try xvi.  It does most of the vi commands, and is small (87 kb
source, 71 kb binary on Unix/386)


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