[HN Gopher] wxHexEditor -- a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for H...
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wxHexEditor -- a Free Hex Editor / Disk Editor for Huge Files or
Devices
Author : Lammy
Score : 46 points
Date : 2024-05-17 23:44 UTC (23 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.wxhexeditor.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.wxhexeditor.org)
| mmwelt wrote:
| Looks useful, but the last release was end of 2017.
| richmans wrote:
| I can confirm the interface feels dated, and it crashed on me
| regularly. Definitely not a replacement for hexfiend that i was
| using in mac!
| pipo234 wrote:
| Call me old-fashioned, but I'm happy poking in MP4 files using
| vbindiff when necessary. Fast and works great over terminal too.
| reflexe wrote:
| wxHexEditor is great but not really maintained and sometimes
| crashes (it even has a builtin prayer to save you from crashing
| https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/blob/master/src/HexEditor...)
| A good replacement is ImHex (https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex).
| Which does the job really well.
| panzi wrote:
| ImHex Looks amazing, but I couldn't get it to work on my system
| last time I tried. Not a pre built version and not compiling it
| myself. So I wrote myself a simple hex viewer. Only a viewer,
| don't need an editor. All other hex editors that I could get to
| work on my system where really disappointing. Either they
| couldn't handle large files (>2GB), or they lacked features,
| like decoding the bytes at the current location as various
| integer types, had very cumbersome controls for navigation, or
| displayed important information like the current offset in
| uneditable labels (status bar) and even didn't give it enough
| room for large files so it got cut off! Did they never use
| their own program? Anyway, my viewer only has a terminal
| interface, so you can always select and copy any text it
| displays. Also has IMHO handy controls to jump around to
| absolute and relative offsets. See:
| https://github.com/panzi/rust-hox But don't look at the ugly
| code. I just cobbled it together somehow because I needed
| exactly that.
| jck wrote:
| I noticed hexyl wasn't on your list:
| https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl
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| Your software seems to be in the same vein as hexyl. I can't
| personally vouch for how well it handles large files cause
| it's been a while, but I suspect it'll do alright.
| mhd wrote:
| Oooh, HTML 4.01, table layout homepage...
| andsoitis wrote:
| What are your common use cases for using a hex editor?
| _xerces_ wrote:
| Examining binaries for firmware images I built when writing
| embedded software and for reverse engineering binaries by
| others to see how they work, make modifications. Fixing
| corrupted image files or figuring out how they work, examining
| Windows PE files or DLLs to get an overview of how they work.
| HxD for example can also do some limited calculations on the
| bytes as well as show you what CPU instruction they might
| represent. Sometimes a hex editor is useful for looking at data
| files stored as binary.
|
| I also used a hex editor extensively when dumping the output of
| streaming H264 NAL units to figure out why the video was
| corrupted.
| signaru wrote:
| When working with non text file formats (e.g. coding a parser
| or file generator) hex editors are convenient for checking that
| data are where they're expected to be, finding out where they
| are otherwise, or checking what values they have. Even
| compressed file formats have header information that can be
| inspected if you have the format's specification.
| _xerces_ wrote:
| HxD is a fantastic editor for those using Windows.
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