On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:54 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:49:14AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > The .spo file format is obsolete and historical. I'm working on it for > completeness' sake and because I enjoy figuring out file formats. > > I don't know if you are aware of "poke" http://www.jemarch.net/poke - > it is a program which is supposed to be usefull for analysing and > editing files of arbitrary formats.
I've been following the author's blog via the Planet GNU RSS feed, but I haven't tried it out yet. It certainly sounds like a useful project that might in fact make my life easier. I tend to do my experiments using the "hexdump" utility and lots of shell scripting and eventually C programs.