Easy to use hex editor?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Geoff,

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:16 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a DOS program I need to modify. I need to be able to load an DOS
> EXE file, and hopefully using a gui, search for ascii text and 8 byte
> floating point numbers in INTEL format and modify them. Then when I write
> the file it still needs to be be executable.
>
>
If it has a patch mode, where I can compare the patched version to the
> original and get a diff type output, I would really be happy.
>
> I had a great one on my MAC, but I no longer have the MAC and would prefer
> to do it on a Linux system.
>
> TIA for any suggestions.
>

Hex editors that I like for Linux (in addition to what Roman said) are:

1. KDE's Okteta - https://utils.kde.org/projects/okteta/ - nice and seems
feature-rich - be aware of its "replace" vs. "insert/delete" modes.

2. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Ghex - GNOME's GHex - easy to use but may
not be too feature-rich.

3. Vim/GVim have a utility for binary editing of files called "xxd" - I
don't have any real experience with it.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

P.S: Perhaps I should add a list of hex editors somewhere under
http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/ (and I also want to add a
list of GUI builders like glade).


>
> Geoff.
>
> --
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
> Jerusalem Israel.
>
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