Easy way to see hex-ascii dump of file?

[Joe User]

Is there an easy way to see a hex-and-ascii dump of file?

I can write a VBA macro to read and format the data myself.

But it would be so much easier (of course) if there already exists a (DOS?)
command to do this, like an option to TYPE or MORE. (None that I see with
HELP.)

I am somewhat adept at using VBA in Excel. Is there a feature of that VBA
that I can exploit, short of rolling my own?

I am using Win XP SP3.

PS: I discovered that I can use the DOS command DEBUG, viz.: `debug myfile

myout`, followed by the DEBUG "d" and "q" commands. That is the kind of

output I am looking for. But the usage is a little baroque. Besides, that
does not work for large files (5.2 Mbytes). I get an "insufficient memory"
error.

(I do not really want to format the entire large file content in hex/ascii.
The ideal command/application would permit me to format subsets on-screen,
then format a selected range into a file, something like the DEBUG d
command. But I would settle for formatting the entire file, then writing a
VBA macro to parse the result and output only the desired range of data.)

 

[Joe User]

The ideal command/application would permit me to format subsets on-screen,
then format a selected range into a file, something like the DEBUG d
command. But I would settle for formatting the entire file, then writing
a VBA macro to parse the result and output only the desired range of data.

Still interested in a better approach.

But I solved my immediate problem by reversing the steps. I wrote a VBA
macro to extract the interesting subset of the file; then I used debug `d`
to format the subset in hex/ascii.


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[Don Phillipson]

Is there an easy way to see a hex-and-ascii dump of file?

PC Tools could do this nearly 20 years ago: so does the
file browser PowerDesk, nowadays sold at www.vcom.com

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Is there an easy way to see a hex-and-ascii dump of file?

I can write a VBA macro to read and format the data myself.

But it would be so much easier (of course) if there already exists a
(DOS?) command to do this, like an option to TYPE or MORE. (None that I
see with HELP.)

I am somewhat adept at using VBA in Excel. Is there a feature of that
VBA that I can exploit, short of rolling my own?

I am using Win XP SP3.

PS: I discovered that I can use the DOS command DEBUG, viz.: `debug
myfile >myout`, followed by the DEBUG "d" and "q" commands. That is the
kind of output I am looking for. But the usage is a little baroque.
Besides, that does not work for large files (5.2 Mbytes). I get an
"insufficient memory" error.

(I do not really want to format the entire large file content in
hex/ascii. The ideal command/application would permit me to format
subsets on-screen, then format a selected range into a file, something
like the DEBUG d command. But I would settle for formatting the entire
file, then writing a VBA macro to parse the result and output only the
desired range of data.)

What about a hex editor such as: http://tinyurl.com/yw5yp

 

[ju.c]

You need a Hex Editor.

TinyHexer is the best free one.

TinyHexer 540 KB (Freeware)
Web: http://www.mirkes.de/files/
Download: http://www.mirkes.de/files/tinyhexer.cab


ju.c