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by js2 4504 days ago
I feel slightly ill now. I once did this on my netscape binary:

    perl -pi -e 's/<blink>/\0/'
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Did the binary still run after you did that? (I assume you actually replaced <blink> with 7 NULs?)
Oops, yes. It still ran sans blinking text. And I may have actually used emacs on the binary.