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When trying to edit OS X app (Unix Executable File)
I want to know how to edit the binary file in a Mac app. The file found in foo.app/Contents/MacOS/foo...
Whenever I try editing it with TextMate, it saves fine. But then I try opening the app, it ...
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Binary diff tool which would work the same way as diff(1) tool
Do you know Unix/Linux diff(1) tool works? It shows which lines were added and removed between 2 text files, and shows it in the human-readable form. I need the same kind of tool for binary files - ...
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Why don't you see binary code when you open a binary file with text editor?
Why don't you see binary code when you open a binary file with text editor? For example, when I open an image with text editor, I see some weird characters and also some human readable characters; but ...
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Why does everything in computing work with a base number of 2 to the power of x?
Flash-drive sizes (increase by powers of 2)
RAM size (increase by powers of 2)
32bit, 64bit, 128bit (increase by powers of 2)
etc...
Can someone explain this, I think it might have something to do ...
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command line merge a sequence of overlapping binary file chunks in Win or Linux
I have a set of binary file chunks from a video file. They are partly overlapping.
To exemplify say that the video file binary data can be represented like this:
"---ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ" where ...
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Changing binary file to readable text file
I have a program that creates a file that stores text like this:
application/octet-stream; charset=binary
now i need to convert this file to this:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
i know this is ...
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Is there a binary-safe “triple less than” <<< operator in bash?
This is a rather hypothetical question, so please don't ask me why I'd want to do this.
Assuming that I have a variable GIF that contains binary data, and assuming that I cannot use the pipe | ...
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Why does Mercurial think my source files are binary?
I've been working on a programming project in Notepad, so far. Today, I opened my source files in an IDE to debug one thing, and the IDE converted saved my files as binary (or so Mercurial reports, ...
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What is the use of binary output on stdout?
Some programs print their binary output directly on stdout. Here are some examples:
tar -c file.png
dd if=file.png
Well, I see that the output can be redirected to a file. But these programs ...
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What is address aliasing? [closed]
What is address aliasing?
How do you do it (general steps)?
What are its benefits/disadvantages?
Context: Given that we have a bunch of address lines and an address decoder inside of a computer...
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Does a compiled software contain binary 0 and 1?
I know that after compiling a software or application, its code is converted into the machine language.
Does a compiled software contain a binary 0 and 1?
What happens after compiling a software? Is ...
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What exactly is a binary file? Is a JPEG file (.jpeg) a binary file?
Sorry if this question seems simplistic or overly broad.
I would like to clarify what a binary file is. I know that a binary file is a binary encoded file -- is a file format like JPEG classified as ...
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List of binary compatible Linux derivates
I'm looking for an overview of binary compatible linux derivates to enterprise Linux versions.
A usable definition of this compatibility is given on Wikipedia.
I already know candidates for this:
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Binary Visual Diff Tool for MacOS X
This might already be answered, but I did not find an answer that really matched my needs. I'm looking for a visual diff tool that can diff binary files. It was also OK if it was integrated into a ...
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What is a good strategy to maintain a set of binaries for Gentoo?
There is the world favourites file in which you can record your favourite packages, then there is the where you can record packages and compile whenever. Also there is http://paludis.pioto.org/.
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fixed point representation vs floating point [closed]
(I don't know if this is the right place to post this, if not sorry and can it be moved to the right site please)
Under what circumstances would fixed point representation be used rather than ...
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Binary data appended to SSL sent mail from Android 2.3.3 Email 2.3
I'm getting some unwanted binary tacked on to the end of all the email I send through Android 2.3.3 Email app v2.3. I'm connecting to my SMTP server via SSL, accepting all certificates, via port 465. ...
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How to upload a file to windows through a netcat session
I have a netcat session and I want to upload a binary to the target windows machine. How can I do so? Is there a native "wget" in windows?
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Binary diff/patch for large files on linux?
I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the ...
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Looking for precompiled binaries of the latest Hunspell for windows
I want to install Hunspell on windows, but on the sourceforge page I find only the sources. There are some binaries too, but they are for only very old versions.
Is there a place where I can find ...
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Tools to check whether an executable has SIMD instructions in it?
Theoretically we can analysis a binary executable/library to see whether it contains any SSE and/or AVX opcode. However, it may be a bit tedious and error-prone. Are there any tools I can use to get a ...
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Cannot execute binary in Linux?
I'm trying to download / execute the Centos 5 64bit auto installer:
http://www.parallels.com/download/sitebuilder4/#CENTOS5X86_64
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I have a binary or hex file cached in firefox. How can I make it a working file?
I can't download the file anymore, but it's still sitting in my firefox cache. Using about:cache, I can see the file as an xhtml page showing the encoding, filetype, etc... and then three columns of ...
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Firefox 4 giving a “couldn't calculate the application directory” error
I'm installing Firefox 4 on my work's managed linux system, so I can't access the package manager.
I downloaded the Firefox 4 tar from their website and unpacked it into my home directory as per the ...
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Overriding Linux libraries for historical binary-only tools
I have a 64 bit Ubuntu Linux box. Recently I was given an old compiled binary that used to run on an old, retired server, which I THINK was a 2007-era Redhat distribution.
As you might expect, the ...
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convert text to binary/executable file (for e-mail attachments)
My e-mail service provider blocks lots of attachments, but sends me a text attachment that has information such as the following:
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="filename.dll"
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How much disk space would take to list every possible UEI-48 or MAC address?
Is it (2^48) possible addresses X 48 bits = 1536 terabytes ??
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Unable to find php binary
PHP is running fine with apache on my server. I want to use it from command line but I am unable to find the binary:
root@....:~# whereis php
php:
root@....:~# whereis php5
php5: /etc/php5 ...
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How to prepend 8 bytes of data to a binary file in Linux?
I would like to add 8 bytes of data to the beginning of a binary file.
Is there a Linux command for this?
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Unconvert Text File from Binary Format
I've got a rather large CSV file (~700MB) which I know to consist of lines of 27-character alpha-numeric hashes; no commas or anything fancy. Somehow, during its migration from Windows to Linux (via ...
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How do I do the Mac equivalent of adding something to the Windows path environment variable? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Where does $PATH get set in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard?
I need to get a command line program working on my Mac, I have downloaded the executable binaries... not even quite ...
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About the definition of PE
I know that binary executables in windows belong to PE, but what about libraries like .dll or .lib files, do they belong to the category of PE?
And what about the executables in linux?
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Is there a tool to compare binary files? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Binary Diff Tools On Windows
I have two executables, one of which has been modified.
I need such a tool to see what modifications were made.
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What command shows the architecture of a binary file on Mac?
I used it a while ago, but cannot find now...
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How to split binary file based on pattern?
I would like to split a binary file into smaller files based on pattern 'xÚ' (it's 78 DA in hexadecimal), so when there's an 'xÚ' in the file the splitter script splits and pastes the content into a ...
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Distributing binary with dependencies in Linux
I'm developing a cross-platform application and I'm having trouble with distributing a Linux binary. In Windows the dll's were - libsndfile-1.dll lua5.1.dll lua51.dll openal32.dll sfml-audio.dll ...
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Which Waveform viewer to use for binary data?
I have a file that contains a set of signals, each with binary data that changes other time.
Something like this:
clk : 0011001100110011
sig1: 0001000100010001
sig2: 0111100010011011
I am looking ...
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What is the fastest and most reliable way to split a 50GB binary file into chunks of 5GB or less, and then reassemble it later?
Our servers are running Ubuntu Linux, and the binary file is a BSON dump of a large MongoDB collection. How reliable is a tool like split? Is there a faster or better way to do this?
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How to check the version of the dynamic linker?
If I run a binary compiled on a newer Linux distro on an older Linux distro, I may get an error like this:
error while loading shared
libraries: requires glibc 2.5 or later
dynamic linker
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Command to find the source package of a binary?
I know there's a which command, that echoes the full name of a binary (e.g. which sh). However, I'm fairly sure there's a command that echoes the package that provides a particular binary. Is there ...
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How do a binary diff on two identically sized files under linux?
I have two identically sized files and I need to do a binary diff to check whether they're the same.
I'm currently runnnig diff file1.img file2.img but it's taking quite a while to process my 4GB ...
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Midnight Commander(MC) binary/setup/installer for the Mac(10.6)
I use MC on windows and linux. would like to use it on my Mac ? Can someone point me to an URL where I can download a binary setup/install ?
Thank you,
BR,
~A
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Change first byte of file in Linux?
How can I change the first byte of multiple files in Linux? Willing to use perl/awk/sed/whatever. Must work correctly on binary files (i.e. not change any other bytes).
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Free-as-in-beer binary file format inspector
I am looking for a utility that gives me the ability to specify a binary file format and then interpret a file of bytes according to that format. (Something along the lines of the 010 Editor, but ...
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Linux binary support under Mac OS X?
Is there a way to add Linux binary compatibility to Mac OS X 10.5+ such as that found in FreeBSD?
For instance, and totally as an example, here is Arlequin 3.5, a population genetics software that my ...
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Can I run 64-bit executables on a 32-bit Linux?
If yes, how?
OS: 32-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.4 (Tikanga)
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Binary Diff Tools On Windows
I have two different binary files, and I want to compare their difference.
Is there a free GUI based binary diff tool that is available on Windows?
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Version control for binary files?
Is there a good version control system for binary files? I would like to be able to use VC with things like photos and Word documents. I know some existing systems such as Subversion and Git support ...
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Binary repetition
In binary up to how many times can a 1 (one) or a 0 (zero) be repeated.
Lets se i have an myfile.mp3 if i was to read the binary code of that file.
would be something like "010001001010..."
on this ...
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Command line binary for Fusion location?
I use VMware on Linux quite extensively, and I am wondering where/what the equivalent of 'VMware-cmd' is on Fusion. I would like to be able to start/stop VM's, without the GUI (If possible).
