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Which hex editor?

Started by Lorenzo Sep 9, 2003 at 12:09 PM 12 replies 2.2k views

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Sep 9, 2003 at 12:09 PM

I have trouble finding a decent (FAST and usable) hexadecimal editor for win32. I was used to the Norton Commander one... maybe that is a bit outdate, I think. What do you use? Can you give me some links? Thanks

sbennett

Sep 9, 2003 at 12:46 PM

I''ve found this one to be quite usable. Disclaimer: I haven''t really tried many, so I don''t have much to compare it to, and I don''t use it much, so you may find differently.

Mastaba

Sep 9, 2003 at 12:57 PM

I use the hex editor in Visual Studio, and sorry I can''t provide any links.

Aselus

Sep 9, 2003 at 1:29 PM

hexworkshop is my pick, and the one i''ve been usign for 4 years now

~Alexei Andreyevitch Kozlenok

PurpleAmethyst

Sep 9, 2003 at 1:34 PM

All modern hex editors I have tried are shit. I just wrote my own, because i was I sick of downloading rubbish that didn''t work properly. best one i found was bview though. built in disassembler.

_DarkWIng_

Sep 9, 2003 at 1:39 PM

Personaly I used UltraEdit32 since the day one.

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Lorenzo

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Lorenzo

Sep 9, 2003 at 1:53 PM

quote:
Original post by Mastaba
I use the hex editor in Visual Studio, and sorry I can''t provide any links.

I''m using that actually, but I don''t feel very confortable... I have to wait too long for the IDE to load to just have a look to a file...

hexworkshop seems very good and feature rich.. unfortunately is not free

I''ll try frhed. Thank guys!!

MatrixCubed

Sep 9, 2003 at 2:02 PM

UltraEdit has a hex editor, though I don''t know if it''s specific enough for your intended use. It''s a pretty kickass text editor I might add.

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marijnh

Sep 9, 2003 at 2:23 PM

Emacs has a neat hex-editor (hexl-mode), but i guess there are not many emacs-fiends here.

JuNC

Sep 9, 2003 at 2:29 PM

I quite like this. Not much in the way of fancy bells and whistles, but it''s tiny, quick, free and does the job.

BungoMan85

Sep 9, 2003 at 2:30 PM

ultraedit is the way to go. whenever i need to look at a file in hex i use it. it works like a charm.

evillive2

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evillive2

Sep 9, 2003 at 9:23 PM

I just use TextPad. Its simple and quick. If you need more than basic copy, paste, search and replace functionality though, they aren''t too difficult to make.

Lorenzo

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Lorenzo

Sep 10, 2003 at 2:57 AM

Thanks to everybody. I tried frhed and hexed. They are quite useful, but they lack a lot of features I was used to (binary/decimal visualization, different byte grouping, shift operations on single or multiple bytes...) I think I''ll buy Hex Workshop. UltraEdit is also non-free, and for my purposes Hex Workshop is better.

Thank guys!

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