hex-editors

What is a good Windows hex editor / viewer?

I am in need of a hex editor / viewer (viewer is more important than editing, but a plus if it can edit) for Windows. See KHexedit Requirements: Free is best View data at cursor as: byte, short, int, long, float, double (signed/unsiged where applicable) Configure the endiance for multi-byte decoding "Nice to have" features: Strin...

General Binary Data Viewer for Windows Vista

I'm looking for recommendations for a good program for 32-bit Windows Vista that will load any arbitrary binary file and display textual information or graphical visualization relevant to identifying what actual data the bits are supposed to represent. Is ther anything better than a hex editor for this kind of thing? One thing I'd like ...

Can someone explain hex offsets to me?

I downloaded Hex Workshop, and I was told to read a .dbc file. It should contain 28,315 if you read offset 0x04 and 0x05 I am unsure how to do this? What does 0x04 mean? ...

Encrypt plain text inside EXE / RAM :: HxD editor

HxD (hex editor) allows to search/view/edit RAM. How can I protect a EXE against such editor? Data is encrypted inside INI/registry/DB, but is decoded at RAM. What is the solution? At runtime decode, use and recode data inside RAM ASAP? ...

What's a good hex editor/viewer for the Mac?

What's a good hex editor/viewer for the Mac? I've used xxd for viewing hexdumps, and I think it can be used in reverse to make edits. But what I really want is a real hex editor. ...

how to edit binary file on the unix systems.

On windows machine there are lots of third party editors available to edit a binary file. I belive there should be some thing similer buildin in the *nix systems as well. any idea how can i edit a binary file on unix? ...

In emacs, how to strip CR (^M) and leave LF (^J) characters?

I am trying to use hexl mode to manually remove some special chars from a text file and don't see how to delete anything in hexl mode. What I really want is to remove carriage return and keep linefeed characters. Is Hexl mode the right way to do this? ...

Is there a hex editor component for recent Delphi versions?

I've been able to find a few hex controls by searching online, but none that will compile under Unicode. Does anyone know if there is one available? ...

Hex editor for Mac OSX

Hi, Needed ideas on good hex editors/assemblers/disassemblers for Mac, other than gdb. Lola ...

How to discover command line options (if any) for an undocumented executable of unknown origin?

Take an undocumented executable of unknown origin. Trying /?, -h, --help from the command line yields nothing. Is it possible to discover if the executable supports any command line options by looking inside the executable? Possibly reverse engineering? What would be the best way of doing this? I'm talking about a Windows executable, bu...

What is the proper way to replace very small portions of a binary file programmatically?

I have a game code (from ioquake3 project) that compiles part of gameplay binaries on the fly (the qvm system). Now, one could potentially speed it up by loading previously saved binaries of this operation (with any change-of-files precautions in place). But, pointers to functions saved in these binaries are not persistent through sess...

Hexidecimal translation

I downloaded a flash player that has changeable settings. I am trying to change the color of the playlist. Problem is...it's using hex's I have never seen before. The existing hex is 0xdadada (for example, the style of hex) and when I tried to change it to #E1E1E1,which is normally a lighter grey, it came out all black. Does anyone kno...

Hex editor for viewing combined string and float data

I have a binary file of unknown format that I need to be able to read. I have access to a program which can 'unpack' the file, but the user interface is terrible for exporting data. I've extracted a few points in an attempt to search for them in the file and discover a pattern, but it's not an efficient method. What I'm trying to do is ...

Open .bat file in php..

Hello, I want to make an online php hexeditor, where the user uploads a file, the server performs a specified hexedit on it, and then the new file is saved on the server. I was thinking that I should write a .bat file that opens a hex editor on windows, performs the specified actions, then returns the new file. I could use the php functi...

Edit library in hex editor while preserving its integrity

I'm attempting to edit a library in hex editor, insert mode. The main point is to rename a few entries in it. If I make it in "Otherwrite" mode, everything works fine, but every time I try to add a few symbols to the end of string in "Insert" mode, the library fails to load. Anything I'm missing here? ...

working to Hex data using C++

need to help me for working hex string using c++ how to open file binary data hex line by line c++ how to split line using delimiter like 0x3D c++ how to store all lines in vector map except the line founded of search. ex. syntax file binary 32 32 32 32 32 32 30 3D 32 30 31 31 31 30 31 30 32 32 32 32 32 32 31 3D 32 30 31 31 31 30 ...

Recommend hex editor class for C#?

I am looking for a free hex editor class/control for C#. Could you recommend a good one? PS: The only requirement is the control/class should support view/edit file as hex and should be as simple as possible if could. To be more specific, there should be a interface support loadFile/createFile/saveFile. I have a small file(less tha...

Netbeans Debugging Extension for Binary Data

I am writing a program that uses a binary protocol using Netbeans and I am finding its debugging tool irritating to use. When I bring up the visualizer for an array of bytes, it gives me each byte, individually, as a signed integer. I would love something like ghex, or any other nice hex editor. For the time being I've written a utili...