Hex Edit

HexEdit is a Windows hex editor, user-friendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge...

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Windows

hexedit is a windows hex editor, userfriendly and reliable with advanced features (full undo, macros, background searches, calculator, full customization, edits huge files).

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easy to use interface familiar to windows usersunlimited undo (incl. cursor moves), undo changeswindow tabs to see/jump to any open windowhighlighter mode to remember important bytesbuiltin calculator, integrated with macrosautofit, hex/decimal addresses, ovr/ins, ro etcdrag and drop files onto the main windowbackground searches (using low priority thread)background search progress/count in status barconfigure all colours, save in colour schemesability to display ibm/oem (msdos) graphicseasily change font, increase/decrease font sizeprinter margins, headers/footers etc & print previewcomplete clipboard support: binary, ascii, etceasy to use hex/text searches with the "find tool"address tools for fast jumpscompare files or parts of the same fileopen multiple files from open dialog/cmd linefull ebcdic support (incl. cut/paste etc)keystroke macros with error levelscontinually updated properties display (tab dialog)monitor/edit over 60 file/byte/numeric/date values8 floating point formats, 15 date formats8/16/32/64 bit integers (signed/unsigned) in decimalcustomize toolbars, keyboard, context menus ...customizable filter (files of type) list for all file dialogshex text, motorolas & intelhex import/exportcrc32, crcccitt, & checksum of selectionadvanced templates handle almost any type of filetemplates can have variable length and optional partsincluded templates: gif, swf, bmp, dbf, jpg etcrecent files dialog stores info on up to 20000 filesuse clike expressions in jump tools and templatesunlimited bookmarks associated with a file+addressadvanced find (& replace options) including: scope: to mark, to eof, whole file, all open files bookmark all, replace all, alignment, wildcards/bitmaskedit files of more than 4 gbytes (>2^32)

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