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Re: sed - problem parsing binary-file
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: sed - problem parsing binary-file |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jan 2001 08:54:38 +0200 (IST) |
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, BOERINGER,HEIKO (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:
> On parsing the attached binary-file 'nsreg.dat' with the command
> 'sed.exe nsreg.dat -e s/k:\\mdecfg/h:\\mdecfg/i'
> sed (for win32) breaks parsing on offset 00001660h. Is there a bug in =
> sed?
It is a bad idea to use Sed with binary files on non-Unix systems,
because most ports of Sed to DOS/Windows use text-mode reads. Text-mode
reads are terminated whenever the first ^Z character is seen in the
input file, because ^Z is a kind of ``software EOF'' character.