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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:41:49 +0200
From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu>
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Subject: Re: Utility to change a byte in a binary file?
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:25:17 +0000
"V.I.Victor" <idmc_vivr@intgdev.com> wrote:

> It sure seems that this should be simple, but my searches have only
> turned up inter-active hex/disk editors.  I'm probably "asking" wrong.
>=20
> I have a large binary file (>700 meg) and I know that there is a
> single wrong byte.  I also know it's exact location in the file.
>=20
> Is there a command-line utility to write a byte at a specified offset
> into a file?=20

Hello Victor,

editors/bpatch and editors/hexcurse are what you want. Both work great
with large files.

Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87