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

[Greg Freemyer]

Jerry,

I just looked at your diff again and realized it really is a binary
file, not a text file so a simple editor like I described won't work
most likely.

I bet you FTP'ed it in text mode and thus the corruption.  If you have
to resend it, be sure to use binary mode in FTP.

Greg

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jerry,
>
>  If you look closely at the diff, you have a \n in the first and \r\n
>  in the second.
>
>  \n is the Unix / Linux way
>  \r\\n is the Windows way (iirc).
>
>  Assuming \r\n is never valid in this doc, then there are several
>  little converters available to do that.  I think just bringing it into
>  vi and saving back out will do it.
>
>  Greg
>
>
>
>  2008/4/24 Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > 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).
>  >
>  > 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
>
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