I cannot really help you with advice for the exact thing you are asking for: side by side hex and ASCII.
That being said, you should note that ASCII is not really used for a long time - as in decade or more. These days, characters/text are encoded mostly in UTF-8 with variable character code length. So, looking at a file with ASCII viewer/editor may not be that useful. I would be extremely careful editing strings with a hex editor - it may look like you are editing ASCII but you could easily corrupt the underlining UTF code sequence. Then bad things might happen, such as buffer overflow, etc, etc. Hope it helps, Tomas On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 08:48 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > I'm running Debian 9.8 with MATE desktop. > I'm exploring a data file with the intention of eventually parsing it in > a useful fashion. > > Just downloaded ghex. I like the display format. > Its tools are inconvenient. > > I need to: > 1. Simultaneously display in _both_ HEX and ASCII format > 2. Know the current offset in *DECIMAL* format. > {knowing the offset also in HEX might be nice} > 3. Goto to an offset - expressed in DECIMAL. > 4. Advance a specific number of bytes. > 5. Search for an ASCII string. > 6. Search for arbitrary sequence of bytes expressed as HEX. > > Suggested tool(s) in Debian repository? > TIA > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug