>>What if any binary file editor exists that will let >>me view the contents of this file in hexadecimal > This comes with full source ( in c ) so it should be a good beginning for porting to perl. <quote from the documentation for HexEdit 1.0.7>: HexEdit v 1.0.7 Copyright © 1993 Jim Bumgardner Internet Address: jbum@netcom.com HexEdit is a hexdump viewer and editor that works similarly to the hex editor provided with Apple's ResEdit. It allows you to edit either the data fork or the resource fork of a file. I wrote HexEdit because I needed to be able to insert/delete bytes from the data fork of files I was testing, and tools like FEdit don't have insert/deletion. HexEdit is freeware. The author retains the copyright, including the right to alter or sell the program. You may use and copy HexEdit only on a non-commercial basis. You may not sell this program without the author's permission. - The world is one country and mankind, its citizens. Larry Moore and Shirley Allan Union Street West Fergus ON Canada ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch