27 Jan
2006
27 Jan
'06
21:25
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:51:34PM -0500, ken wrote:
Have you tried emacs? It's saved me so many times I can't possibly recall them all. I can't say for sure that it will allow you to display and edit files in hex format, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't do it. Emacs simply does everything.
Emacs has the hexl-mode, which is very convenient. But there is one big drawback with emacs: it fails if you want to edit _really_ big files. Recently I tried to edit a 500MB filesystem to undelete some deleted photos from a SD-card. 500MB was too big for emacs :-(( This was a _big_ disappointment to me...