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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory!
Message-ID: <374@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 3 Oct 89 07:30:35 GMT
References: <705@lakart.UUCP>
Organization: RT6115, BTRL, Martlesham Heath, England
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From article <705@lakart.UUCP>, by dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough):
> From article <22@minya.UUCP>, by jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers):
> 
> If I were a _REAL_ hacker, I'd suggest opening the raw disk device
> (/dev/rsm0g or whatever) for UPDATE, seeking along it looking for
> the string "active", and then just patching the disk itself. [1]
> I do this on a fairly regular basis to my machine at home, but then
> the file structure of CP/M is a bit simpler that UNIX :-)

Actually I have done this - but it is rather hamperred by not having a binary
editor in UNIX . I used vi and it didnt work very well, there is nothing
like rebooting and finding the whole of /usr/bin in lost+_found to
convince you that a biunary editor would be nice.

(No - I am _NOT_ joking)

-Pete.

-- 
       -Pete French.               | "Love is the corpse,
  British Telecom Research Labs.   |  That crawls on dreams,
 Martlesham Heath, East Anglia.    |  Rips them apart,
All my own thoughts (of course)    |  And tears them to shreds" - SOM