Hexpad 1.1 (freeware)

[xxx]

Hexpad 1.1 is a small hex editor but it has full functionality of hex
editing, it is 100% freeware and always updating....

http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html

expad is an ultralight 32-bit Hex Editor for Microsoft Windows.
This application is very small and fast and it has all the necessary
features to quickly and easily edit files, it's almost like using a
normal text-editor.
Unlimited undo-redo, find-, replace- and goto dialog, cut, copy,
paste, insert and delete will give you full control.
The editor and the dialogs accept hexadecimal as well as ordinary
strings to speed up work.
Hexpad uses std::deque to enable fast insertion and deletion at the
front and the end of the document, the size of the document is limited
to your computer's memory.

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, xxx, ([email protected]) said...

Hexpad 1.1 is a small hex editor but it has full functionality of hex
editing, it is 100% freeware and always updating....

http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html

Download of non-install-zip: 87kb. Talk about boomer sized freeware.

Great. Sometimes, I need something to peek into suspicious files
without risking an accidential launch.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[xxx]

up to now, i found three good freewares of hex editor only:
(1) Hexedit 1.2: http://www.catch22.net
Its interface is nice, but its replace functionality has some bugs.
(2) frhed 1.1: http://www.kibria.de
I don't like its data format such as <bh:08><bh:88>
(3) Hexpad 1.1: http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html
This is new one...

 

[Toad]

up to now, i found three good freewares of hex editor only:
(1) Hexedit 1.2: http://www.catch22.net
Its interface is nice, but its replace functionality has some bugs.
(2) frhed 1.1: http://www.kibria.de
I don't like its data format such as <bh:08><bh:88>
(3) Hexpad 1.1: http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html
This is new one...

I like this one :

http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/tinyhex.php

Toad

 

[xxx]

yes, this one is good, but i found it has two problems:
(1) when it is running on a old pc, it is so slow...
(2) when using it to compare two files and display them, the two
windows will become corrupted. (the smaller file can't be displayed
properly.)

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, xxx, ([email protected]) said...

(1) Hexedit 1.2: http://www.catch22.net
Its interface is nice, but its replace functionality has some bugs.
(2) frhed 1.1: http://www.kibria.de
I don't like its data format such as <bh:08><bh:88>
(3) Hexpad 1.1: http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html
This is new one...

How about XVI32? It's good, too.

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

I like no-install programs, which you can swap in and out, to check
which one is better.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[null]

On that special day, xxx, ([email protected]) said...


How about XVI32? It's good, too.

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi32/xvi32.htm

I like no-install programs, which you can swap in and out, to check
which one is better.

The hex editor in my D-browse program (a LFN aware DOS program) has
a cropping capability. You left click on the first byte of a block of
bytes and right click on the last byte. Then Delete will remove the
selected and highlighted block of bytes from the file. Reduce will
remove all bytes not in the block. Thus, Delete and Reduce are mirror
image cropping functions. Cropping cuts down to one step what other
editors may require two steps to accomplish .... one to delete to
cursor, and the next to delete from cursor (in the case of wanting to
Reduce a file).

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[xxx]

ooh... i don't like xvi32...

(1) its interface is not good, no right-click menu
(2) can't use mouse to select a block, this is too bad
(3) more important, mouseimp doesn't work on xvi32!

 

[B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson]

up to now, i found three good freewares of hex editor only:
(1) Hexedit 1.2: http://www.catch22.net
Its interface is nice, but its replace functionality has some bugs.
(2) frhed 1.1: http://www.kibria.de
I don't like its data format such as <bh:08><bh:88>
(3) Hexpad 1.1: http://www.schaffler.net/ksoft/hexpad.html
This is new one...

There are several other. Let's see which are worth mentioning...

- There is another HexPad out there, specialized on far-eastern character
sets. It is from Mike Zang (Tokyo). Most sites list it as Shareware
with no costs mentioned. But I think he meant to release it as a kind
of copyrighted freeware, instead. It has no accompanied license info,
while his Chinese Lunar Calendar Program is released as "Shareware"
with a notice to free distribution and no means to pay some money or
such... You can load HexPad 1.4 here:
http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/win9x.desktop.edit.html
- An interesting HexEditor if you need to open *very* large files or
want a visual binary compare is JHEditor. It requires a Java Runtime,
but it is a very capable editor:
http://home.arcor.de/mschierlm/sm-soft/jheditor.htm
- HexWizard by Günther Haslbeck has been written with cheating gamers
as target users:
http://de.geocities.com/hexwizard2
- A multi-platform text- and hex-editor using a console interface
resembling the old Borland stile editors is HTE:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hte
- Tiny Hexer by Markus Stephany has much more of a GUI, but is bloated
(not the slightest touch of 'Tiny' ;-) ) even in a special 'light'
version for BartPE:
http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/tinyhex.php
- XVI has been mentioned elsewhere.
- If someone is looking for a good hex editor for DOS: There seem to
be thousands of free ones. The best I have found up to now is QView,
a former Shareware 'Hackers Tool':
http://www.agcproduct.com/rus/downloads
(The website is Russian, but the editor has an English interface, too.)

This is just a selection of the better free ones, though.

BeAr