(jed.info)Editing Binary Files

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Editing Binary Files
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   JED may edit binary files as long as the proper precautions are
taken. On IBMPC systems, this involves calling the S-Lang function
`set_file_translation' with an integer argument.  If the argument is 0,
files are opened as text files; otherwise, they are opened in binary
mode.  There is no need to call this function for other systems.
However, beware of the user variable `ADD_NEWLINE' which if non zero, a
newline character will be appended to the file if the last character is
not a newline character.  If you are going to edit binary files, it is
probably a good idea to set this variable to zero.