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Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: Captain_Kirk on January 06, 2004, 08:32:04 am

Does anyone know of a hex editor that can be used to inspect the contents of Zaurus files?  Something like khexedit or the time-honoured MS-DOS Debug?

I\'d appreciate any help.

(I know I could use a desktop or laptop to inspect files over a network like ssh, but I would like to be able to do it in standalone mode).

Many thanks

Captain Kirk

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: bam on August 27, 2005, 08:00:09 pm

I second this, it would be helpful, anyone know of one? i found khexedit, but I know nothing of porting it to zaurus functionality

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: inode0 on August 27, 2005, 10:51:03 pm

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I second this, it would be helpful, anyone know of one? i found khexedit, but I know nothing of porting it to zaurus functionality

I just compiled hexedit for the Z and it basically works except I can't get the F1 key to work, which is rather important I think ... I'll keep trying a bit longer.

John

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: inode0 on August 27, 2005, 11:30:07 pm

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I just compiled hexedit for the Z and it basically works except I can't get the F1 key to work, which is rather important I think ... I'll keep trying a bit longer.

Ok, for the daring you can grab hexedit_1.2.10_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/hexedit_1.2.10_arm.ipk) and hexedit-doc_1.2.10_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/hexedit-doc_1.2.10_arm.ipk) and give it a try. The F1 help key isn't likely to work unless you have a man page reader installed and it can find the hexedit manpage. If I ever get around to building a man program perhaps I'll add this package to my feed. For now I'll just leave it here for the daring to try and remove it when I think of it.

John

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: inode0 on August 28, 2005, 01:03:21 am

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Ok, for the daring you can grab hexedit_1.2.10_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/hexedit_1.2.10_arm.ipk) and hexedit-doc_1.2.10_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/hexedit-doc_1.2.10_arm.ipk) and give it a try. The F1 help key isn't likely to work unless you have a man page reader installed and it can find the hexedit manpage. If I ever get around to building a man program perhaps I'll add this package to my feed. For now I'll just leave it here for the daring to try and remove it when I think of it.

Ok, gone already. Now you can get ones that work from the feed hexedit_1.2.10-1_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/zaurus/hexedit_1.2.10-1_arm.ipk) and hexedit-doc_1.2.10-1_arm.ipk (http://rose.public.iastate.edu/zaurus/hexedit-doc_1.2.10-1_arm.ipk).

hexedit now uses less instead of man, so there is still a dependency which lilkely is less bothersome to most people since less is widely available. Seems to work fine for me if you remember to disable various  other programs from grabbing the function keys.

John

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: bam on November 02, 2005, 03:45:46 pm

link dead? bummer

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: inode0 on November 02, 2005, 04:20:59 pm

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link dead? bummer
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It has been upgraded. Just look for current in this [a href=\"http://rose.public.iastate.edu/zaurus/]feed[/url].

John

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: Hrw on November 03, 2005, 04:58:17 am

vim + xxd works fine for me

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: bam on November 03, 2005, 05:23:42 am

xxd ?? I would love to have a gui hex editor, like khexedit? Anyone try and port that yet?

Title: Hexadecimal editor
Post by: pgas on November 03, 2005, 06:38:23 am

you can also use mc (view->hex->edit, ie F3 F4 F2)
there is perhaps a more straightforward way to get there....

hexl mode in emacs...