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BVI - Binary visual editor

http://bvi.sourceforge.net/

This editor for binary files was written by Gerhard Buergmann and is distributed under the GPL (GNU Public License).

How to compile

        gunzip -c bvi-1.3.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
        cd bvi-1.3.2
        ./configure
        make
        make install

MAC OS X

Looks like the curses implementation in Darwin is really limited. You should install and use ncurses instead. You can download it from ftp ftp.gnu.org; install it and then use

./configure --with-ncurses=/usr/local/ncurses-5.2

HTML documentation in subdirectory html/

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PLEASE send any bug reports (and fixes), code for new features, comments, questions, etc. (even flames) to:

Gerhard Buergmann
Vienna, Austria
E-mail: gerhard@puon.at