Looking for good binary editor
Doug Stevens
would be nice but is not essential. The type of screen I'm looking for
includes the address/offset for the data within the file, the hex
dump of the data, and the ASCII interpretation:
0 67 72 61 66 3A 20 09 67 72 61 70 68 69 63 73 20 graf: .graphics
10 73 6F 66 74 77 61 72 65 0D 0A 0D 0A 09 6F 72 63 software.....orc
20 61 64 3A 09 09 4F 72 63 61 64 0D 0A 0D 0A 09 70 ad:..Orcad.....p
30 7A 70 3A 09 09 50 69 7A 61 7A 7A 2D 50 6C 75 73 zp:..Pizazz-Plus
40 0D 0A 0D 0A 6E 75 6D 3A 20 09 6E 75 6D 65 72 69 ....num: .numeri
ANA is very close to what I need, but will only write out a one-page edit
buffer to a file, not the entire file.
Please reply (instead of follow-up). Thanks.
Yossi Gil
SLIM can do pretty much what you want. It is basically a text editor,
but it can work on binary files as well. The HeX value of the current
char is dispalyed in the status line. The main drawback is that your
are restricted to 64KB files.
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Peter Reilley
BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
editor. Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
file is possible with BEAV. You can insert or delete in the middle of
a file thereby changing it's size. You can edit multiple files in
multiple windows and cut and paste between them. You can display and
edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats. You
can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
Motorola byte ordering. You can send the formatted display mode to a
file or printer.
BEAV is based on the source for emacs for display and keyboard handling
functions. The binary file handling and display formats are special
to BEAV. There is a full manual included in this release. There
are makefiles for unix, xenix 286, AmigaDOS, and MSC 5.1 under DOS. The
old Wang PC is supported. This has been tested on 286 and 386 PC's under
SCO UNIX and XENIX and AIX on a RS6000. There are a number of makefiles
included, select the appropriate one and rename it to makefile.
BEAV is available various archives, on SIMTEL20 it is;
PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV132.ZIP MSDOS executable and doc
PD1:<MDSOS.FILUTL>BEAV132S.ZIP source and doc
I am willing to maintain BEAV and will entertain suggestions for
modifications and/or bug fixes. I can be reached at;
or at;
Peter Reilley
19 Heritage Cir.
Hudson, N.H. 03051
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Well, that about says it.
Juergen Bartels
>
> BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file
>editor. Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary
>file is possible with BEAV. You can insert or delete in the middle of
>a file thereby changing it's size. You can edit multiple files in
>multiple windows and cut and paste between them. You can display and
>edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats. You
>can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or
>Motorola byte ordering. You can send the formatted display mode to a
>file or printer.
I recently check BEAV because I was looking also for an editor without
the 256 byte page behaviour. BEAV looked right, however the command key
handling is next to impossible. I needed to dig deep into the manual to find
out how to operate it. For a long time this was the first program I could
not find to exit it. I finally rebooted the PC. Many editors use easy
commands at least for simple opereations, but not BEAV.
My result: I deleted BEAV and still use FM. I don't need the advanced
features anyway.
Jurgen
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