HexEditor

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 25 May 2023
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NAME

HexEditor - Hex Editor and Disk Editor

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/HexEditor [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

HexEditor [ file ]

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

DESCRIPTION

HexEditor (HxD Hex Editor) is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.

Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.

For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.

Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations.

See also: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ for more information about HexEditor (HxD).

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

-i

install the HexEditor command as menu point 'HexEditor' to the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-u

uninstall the HexEditor shortcut from the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer'.

-V

print program version.

directory

a directory to analyze the free disk space. If no directory is specified, you can choose a start point for the analysis in the program.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

program version printed.

6

program variant not known. This error occurs when the HexEditor command is renamed.

FILES

etc/HexEditor.cfg

configuration file of HexEditor.

EXAMPLES

NOTES

HexEditor (HxD) was developed by Mael Hoerz <https://mh-nexus.de/en/contact.php>. See https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ for more information.

Parts of this manual page are extracted from the web page: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/.

BUGS

AUTHOR

HexEditor (HxD) was developed by Mael Hoerz <https://mh-nexus.de/en/contact.php> and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This document was created by man2html using the manual pages.
Time: 16:32:08 GMT, September 14, 2024