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A comment on GNU poke 1.0.

Re:GNU poke 1.0 by chungy on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:51PM (#26279080)
Is this named after the old BASIC command "poke" on micros of the 80s?

This program looks pretty awesome and seems to fit into a use-case that I frequently want. I've usually just consigned myself to using standard hex editors, sometimes little bits of Python to wrangle whatever data I'm trying to manage.

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Re:GNU poke 1.0 by nocman on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:48PM (#26280241)
That was the first thing that came to mind for me.

Shouldn't it also have a companion utility named peek?

:-D

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Re:GNU poke 1.0 by Brian_K_White on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:07PM (#26282028)
If you combime poke and peek you could get "poek" still pronounced poke, and also have a little allusion to elegance by being almost "poet".

Honestly I don't suggest that, just having fun. Simple is good in a name. Then again, so is a unique search term.

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Re:GNU poke 1.0 by adamrezich on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:34PM (#26281511)
Sounds like a better version of the old MS-DOS DEBUG.EXE to me, which for some reason I saw fit to use on explorer.exe on my dad's old WinBook XP running Windows 95 back in the day...
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