Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!galadriel!pcf 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 Lines: 23 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