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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by barbs on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @05:42PM (#12915517)
If you're looking for vi, but for binary, bvi does the job.

http://bvi.sourceforge.net/

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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by kovrik on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:39PM (#12916912)
Or use hexl-mode in Emacs
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Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive by JadeNB on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:47AM (#12921953)
I'm pretty sure vi itself, or at least vim, is fine with binary files. You can run it as `vim -b` or `:set binary`.
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