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G. Mark Stewart
06-29-2003, 07:16 AM
I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was
of hex equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
representation of the characters they equated to.

Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
current commercial packages allow that?

Mark

mjt
06-29-2003, 03:22 PM
G. Mark Stewart wrote:

> I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was
> of hex equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
> representation of the characters they equated to.
>
> Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
> current commercial packages allow that?

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Cameron Kaiser
06-29-2003, 04:57 PM
Followups set to comp.sys.mac.

gmark[at]svs.com (G. Mark Stewart) writes:

>Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
>current commercial packages allow that?

I like HexEdit: http://hexedit.sourceforge.net/
It's Carbon.

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Robert
06-29-2003, 06:05 PM
gmark[at]svs.com (G. Mark Stewart) wrote in message news:<f4d03077.0306282216.31b13760[at]posting.google.com>...
> I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was
> of hex equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
> representation of the characters they equated to.
>
> Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
> current commercial packages allow that?
>
> Mark

I use HexEditor. It's free. See:

http://www.ex-cinder.com/hexeditor.html

Peter T. Breuer
06-30-2003, 06:51 AM
In comp.os.linux.misc G. Mark Stewart <gmark[at]svs.com> wrote:
> I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was

bvi

> of hex equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
> representation of the characters they equated to.

> Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
> current commercial packages allow that?

bvi?

Peter

B. Joshua Rosen
07-16-2003, 12:50 AM
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:16:05 -0700, G. Mark Stewart wrote:

> I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was of hex
> equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
> representation of the characters they equated to.
>
> Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the current
> commercial packages allow that?
>
> Mark

XEmacs has a hex mode.

Xyerp
07-16-2003, 12:11 PM
gmark[at]svs.com (G. Mark Stewart) wrote in message news:<f4d03077.0306282216.31b13760[at]posting.google.com>...
> I recall a version of vi that could edit binaries. The display was
> of hex equivalents of the file's bitfields, and the right side had a
> representation of the characters they equated to.
>
> Does anyone know of a good hex editor for OS X? Any of the
> current commercial packages allow that?
>
> Mark

elvis has a hex edit mode