From:	Bob <bob AT xnet DOT com>
Subject:	Re: gdb-dpmi
To:	perk AT iag DOT net (Bill Perkins)
Date:	Sat, 6 May 1995 09:45:23 -0500 (CDT)
Cc:	bob AT cyclone DOT xnet DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>> speaking of things that probably don't belong...does anyone have a port of BEAV
>> to djgpp?  it compiles fine w/ borland and microsoft c, and w/ a little hacking
>> i was able to get it to compile under djgpp, but it immediately segfaults.  i
>> haven't tried debugging it yet to see what it's doing cause i wanted to see if
>> anyone's done this yet?  either that or is there some other decent binary
>> editor that can do large files [hence wanting to recompile beav under djgpp].
>> 
>  OK, I give up. What's BEAV?

oh comeon, you can't guess your acronyms? ;) [sorry although i did kind of
imply what it was, i realise it wasn't very explicit, of course if you don't
know what it is then you haven't ported it, but that's a different story]

beav is "Binary Editor and Viewer".  it is pretty powerful and runs nicely on
most unix platforms.  it also uses mostly Emacs key bindings, for those that
like emacs [i prefer vi, but let's not go down that road...:)]  only problem is
that the MSDOS compilation is limited to msdos 640k limit.  i figured a
recompile under djgpp would be the obvious next step to make it usable on
larger files.  of course not reading the whole file in might be the next step,
but . . .

i don't think there's been a new release in a long time and it seems like it's
really difficult to get a hold of for some reason [had to search some really
weird places i think using veronica, i think archie came up empty].

if anyone wants a copy [assuming that no one's ported it] i can make it
available.

bob(tm)
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