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js2 on Feb 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google search for “blink html”

I feel slightly ill now. I once did this on my netscape binary:

    perl -pi -e 's/<blink>/\0/'

jrockway on Feb 22, 2014 [–]

Did the binary still run after you did that? (I assume you actually replaced <blink> with 7 NULs?)

js2 on Feb 22, 2014 | [–]

Oops, yes. It still ran sans blinking text. And I may have actually used emacs on the binary.

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