From: "Chris Antos (Exchange)" 
TSE's Binary mode isn't a "true" binary mode, in that if you set it to
64 bytes per line, it is broken up into 64-byte-long lines when loading
it, but any editing you do can throw that off.
however, you can try the HEXOFS.ZIP macro on ftp.semware.com.  it should
help at least.
//chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	fred.holmes@mix.cpcug.org [SMTP:fred.holmes@mix.cpcug.org]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 08, 1997 11:25 AM
> To:	TSEPRO@SEMWARE.COM
> Subject:	Binary file editing
> 
> 
> I've been doing a little bit of experimenting with binary file
> editing using TSE.  I've done it a lot with WordPerfect's old
> ED.EXE, and an old program, PATCH.COM.  Is there any way to:
> 
> 1)  Have the offset/address displayed, and use a goto command to
> go to a specific offset/address?
> 
> 2)  Produce a display similar to LIST.COM in the /H or Alt-H
> [HEX] mode, with the offset/address displayed on the left,
> sixteen bytes displayed in the center in hex format, and sixteen
> bytes displayed on the right in "binary" (pc screen font) format?
> 
>    -- and then be able to edit in either hex or binary (direct,
>    using, e.g. Alt+nnn [numeric keypad])?
> 
> Basically I'm looking for good old PATCH.COM with the ability to
> handle large files and use insert mode (not just overwrite).
> 
> If I load a file with binary and hex enabled, the binary is on
> the left and the hex is on the right, opposite to what I'm used
> to, and there isn't any easy way I've found to get to an explicit
> address either a specific 16-byte line, or over to a specific
> byte, except by tedious counting.
> 
> I'm almost certainly missing something.  Is there a ready-made
> macro that sets all this up?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Fred Holmes   fred.holmes@mix.cpcug.org
> 
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