Charles Craft <chucksea <at> mindspring.com> writes:
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> > Several tools come to mind: sed - for command line editing;=20


> Those won't do him any good unless he converts it to ASCII.
> It's an ASCII string embedded in a binary file that he wants to change.


That's exactly what sed will do.  OP specified that he needs to change ASCI=
I
string.  Might need to maintain the string length, but that's about it. =20
command line is:=20
sed s/Search String/Subst. String/ filename > newFilename
I just verified it o a bin file generated by gcc (actually a Hello World in=
 QT4).

Sergey Dryga
http://beaglerobotics.com



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