busybox vi doesn't use ncurses?

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Mon Jun 12 12:27:07 UTC 2006


ok, misunderstanding.
NTL a tool like xxd would be nice.

re,
  wh

Paul Fox wrote:
> wharms wrote:
>  > 
>  > aehm, i would prefer a xxd solution since octal is (for me) much less 
>  > common.
> 
> to be clear, i wasn't suggesting adding either of these solutions
> to busybox -- i was only replying to the question asked, trying
> to suggest hex editing solutions that might work.  i took "works
> with busybox" to mean "can be loaded on a system using busybox
> and probably not require more libraries than are already there".
> 
> paul
> 
>  > 
>  > Paul Fox wrote:
>  > >  > > We use ansi escape sequences and no curses impl.
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Do you know an hexadecimal editor that works with busybox? All those I've 
>  > >  > found need libncurses.
>  > > 
>  > > i'd look at xxd, or hextools (http://freshmeat.net/projects/hextools/),
>  > > which are apparently tools that take a hexdump and convert it
>  > > back into a binary file.  i've never used either one.  i have a
>  > > simple tool called "unod" which undoes the traditional unix "od -c"
>  > > format.  if someone knows how to get the busybox hexdump to
>  > > create that format, then that might be a very small solution (but
>  > > you'd have to work in octal).
>  > > 
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