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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help with Reading/Editing of EBCDIC files at UNIX Post 302842831 by ektubbe on Saturday 10th of August 2013 02:40:02 PM
Old 08-10-2013
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Originally Posted by blackrageous
Not sure if this will help, try bvi (binary vi)...you may need to write a cheap c program.
guess you were right.. just now i discovered gcc on my AIX so i guess C would be the best way to do it...can you pls illuminate a bit on it.. i have never been very good with C .. ..thanks a lot Smilie Smilie
 

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guess-helper(8) 						   NVRAM WakeUp 						   guess-helper(8)

NAME
guess-helper - Tries to guess the configuration by comparing four dumps of the NVRAM. SYNOPSIS
guess-helper DESCRIPTION
guess-helper is a helper program from the package nvram-wakeup. It will guide you through the procedure of creating the files needed for the program guess and eventually will run guess at the end. The output will be a configuration file which might even work ;-) Don't change any other BIOS settings you are not told to change until the procedure is finished. See README.mb for more details. SEE ALSO
nvram-wakeup(8), guess(8), README.mb HOMEPAGE
http://sf.net/projects/nvram-wakeup/ AUTHOR
Written by Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at the bug tracking system (see HOMEPAGE) or on the mailing list nvram-wakeup-devel@lists.sourceforge.net COPYRIGHT
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