"Double Dumbass on You" <spam_me_gently_with_a_chainsaw@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>"jacking the whole file up" as in you add one character to the binary and
>then instead of being 19564 bytes, it's 6421.
>

How could I possibly have understood that from the phrase
"jacking the whole file up?"

If adding a byte to the file makes a change of more than a single
byte to the file, then you are obviously not using the correct
utility to change the file.

-Greg
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Double Dumbass on You <spam_me_gently_with_a_chainsaw@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I didn't get it either. I opened the binary /etc/scsi with vi, added
> 'A' as the first character, saved the file, and the size was vastly
> different.

vi isn't a binary editor.

Try 'cat' instead.

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"Double Dumbass on You" <spam_me_gently_with_a_chainsaw@yahoo.com> writes:
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>Yeah, I didn't get it either. I opened the binary /etc/scsi with vi, added
>'A' as the first character, saved the file, and the size was vastly
>different.
>

This is the problem: you're using the wrong tool to modify the file.
Vi is a editor for *text* files, not binary files. As you've seen,
it does completely wrong things when you ask it to edit files that
aren't text, like a binary file.

Instead, use one of the binary editors that can be found in numerous
places on the Internet. For example, www.sunfreeware.com.

-Greg
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Double Dumbass on You wrote:

>
> Though I am a die-hard patriot of the USA, I think foreign languages have
> some superior points.

Heh!

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