[ale] tool to repair a binary file given a diff between hex dumps of the original and the altered

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:56 -0400, Jerry Yu wrote:
> what tool can I suggest a remote Windows admin to use to 'repair' his
> binary file given the hex diff below. 
> Of course, if this 'repair' is too hairy, I'd go down the
> retransmission route (expensive).

	hexedit?

	I've used this for working on and extracting keys from memory dumps.

	I know it's available on Linux and OS/X.  Don't know about what you
would give a Windows admin.  A copy of Ubuntu?

	DOS, we use to just use debug.

> diff meta.od-x tpp.od-x 
> 24,25c24,26 
> < 0000560 6b92 d311 01fb f7be 402c c959 a125 0ac4 
> < 0000600 
> --- 
> > 0000560 6b92 d311 01fb f7be 402c c959 a125 0d0a 
> > 0000600 c400 
> > 0000601 

	Mike
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