From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 11: 9:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 73FF711EC1 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 15234 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Feb 1999 10:33:45 -0000 Message-ID: <19990222103345.15233.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:33:45 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Gustavo Vieira G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: assembly References: <36D0DE0C.50AD0AD9@netshell.vicosa.com.br> In-reply-to: <36D0DE0C.50AD0AD9@netshell.vicosa.com.br> of Mon, 22 Feb 1999 01:33:16 -0300 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > CAn i write a program using assembly to read/write mster.passwd file > i would not use any API to perform such a action! > > is that possible? Two answers seem to fit here: * Why bother? You can do what you need with ed (or vi or emacs or any of the other editors that allow full control of what you do. * If you have to ask, the answer is probably "no". -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message