XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 07.02.2025 11:44, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > On 2025-02-07 10:57, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   >> [...]   
   >> The likely more interesting thing is probably to provide more advanced   
   >> features in _dedicated_ hex editors. - I recall some tools where you   
   >> could edit either the hex values (on the left part of the screen) or   
   >> its string representation (on the right part of the screen).   
   >   
   > Certainly. PC Tools on plain MsDOS did just that. Probably the Norton   
   > Utilities did too. What I don't remember doing is inserting a byte/char.   
      
   Good point. Inserting is just a normal operation in editors like Vim.   
   (And I don't remember that those dedicated hex-editors were capable   
   of that. OTOH, there were so many of these specific editors that I'd   
   also not be surprised if some supported that.) For certain data that   
   feature might be useful, but generally inserting/deleting of binary   
   data might likely just create an inconsistent data file.   
      
   But even domain-specific tailored "editors" seem to have issues with   
   data consistency.[*]   
      
   Janis   
      
   [*] I recall during the 1990's I had some tools for video processing   
   on a Windows computer; the tools were incapable of creating consistent   
   results even when staying within the vendor's tools chest. Every single   
   component seemed to do its job correctly on arbitrary data, but one of   
   their tool working on the output of another of their tools created just   
   trash. It was a well known vendor, but it's name evades my memories.   
   On my complaints they had argued that the original data wasn't correct.   
   (That was of course the last time that I used their products at all.)   
      
   > [...]   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)