Easy to use hex editor?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
In addition to all that, I found this link in a DuckDuckGo search:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5498197/need-a-good-hex-editor-for-linux

There are quite a few recommendations there.

Regards,

— Shlomi Fish

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