a good hex editor

[James Tappin]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:45:00 +0200
Luqman <luqman_ngs at gmx.net> wrote:

L> hello,
L> 
L> I am in need of a good, i.e. to some extent usable hex editor. I have
L> had a try on vim (with hex mode), ghex2 and  hexcurse but none of
L> them seem to do what I lke. 
L> 
L> I like to delete some parts of a binary file using such a hex editor.
L> Unbelieveable but true, everyone of the above mentioned editors had 
L> one or the other issue. 

L>   There must an intuitively usable hexeditor available, I have not
L>   tried yet. 
L> 
L>   You feedback is much appreciated. I am not afraid of command line
L>   but the editor should at least do what the name suggest "able to
L>   edit" hex file.

I generally use khexedit (mainly for such nasties as debugging VMS file
record structures), I think there is a hex mode in emacs as well.

James

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