Well, I've not used it for hex viewing, but I'm fond of Notepad++ on Windows. Perhaps the hex viewer plugins here would suit you?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/ -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Hex viewer? > > Hey all, > > Can anyone recommend a good hex viewer that can handle files of arbitrary > size (i.e., doesn't read the whole file into memory at once)? > > All I'm looking for is a table of byte values with offsets on the left and ASCII > interpretation on the right. If anyone remembers the "hex view" mode of > Vern Buerg's venerable LIST.COM program from the days of DOS, that's > exactly what I'm looking for, except for Win32. > > (I've got a 166 MB text file extracted from an ancient database table. All the > utilities I've thrown at it appear to think it consists of one line roughly 170 > million characters wide. There must be some kind of record separator, but I > can't figure out what it is. > Or maybe it's fixed-length, but then I need to view it to determine the > length.) > > I've done the Google, but there are a great many possibilities, hence my > desire for a recommendation from people I know. :) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
