HexEdit A Macintosh hexadecimal file editor.
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A Macintosh hexadecimal file editor. HexEdit is a Macintosh hexadecimal file editor that handles both data and resource forks. It is the most widely used editor of it's kind on the platform, and can handle file sizes of up to four gigabytes with ease, yet has memory requirements of less than a megabyte (with color turned off). It can compare whole files for similarities or differences and will soon be able to do so for any subset within the files.A great tool that allows you to edit and analyze the contents for either the data or resource fork of any type of file. Versions for 68K, PPC and Carbon are included, allowing HexEdit to run on MacOS 7-9 and X.HexEdit is an open source project hosted on SourceForge and maintained by Lane Roathe. All developers and contributors are listed in the HexEdit about box.No purchase is required -- you can download the full, unrestricted, version at no cost. However, you can "purchase" HexEdit if you wish to help continue it's development... we will definately thank you!HexEdit was originally released by Jim Bumgardner, who was kind enough to release the source code (this was well before the concept of Open Source, by the way :). The current developers give a big Thank You! to Jim for his original efforts and a great program. Here are some key features of "HexEdit": · Edit very large files. · Includes complete source code. · Completely FREE (purchase is considered a donation). · Available in multiple languages. · Edit data or resource fork of files. Limitations: · Mac OS X, 8 or 9 on a PPC. · NOTE: A 68K / OS 7 build is included, but not supported. What's New in This Release: · Universal Binary build! · Removed cvs header items (just made merges harder and we're on svn now anyway) · Hopefully updated svn repository with good resource files. · New files are once again saved with the correct default HexEdit file type of BINA (existing files creator/type are not changed!) · Converted resource files into data-fork resource files and text .r sources · Converted codewarrior project to use .r files for resources instead of .rsrc files (couldn't use datafork resources!) · Saved copy/paste commands for re-creating .r resource files (took a full day to figure out! And stupid things like 'TEXT' are unknown!) · Put in Ben's new bundle plist that should (hopefully) fix the OS X "everthing, esp. .dmg files, opens with HexEdit) issues! · Checked in a 68K application in MacBinary and .zip format as the actual app looses it's resource fork in svn · Made sure XCode 2.0 and 2.4 and CW 8 projects compile, link and application built runs · Added new icons. · Improved compare w/highlighting changes. · Fixed print offsets. · Reports of paste not working in find dialog; unable to repo so hopefully fixed · Fixed File menu resource in classic (missing item broke file compare, quit, etc) · Fix FAT linking order (Carbon must come first, so 68K resources don't overwrite) · HexEdit is now distributed two separate archives for a cleaner end user experience: Application & Documentation - a .dmg image for easy drag and drop install; and Source code & related build files in a .zip archive for cross platform use · The version control repository on sourceforge was migrated from cvs to svn. · The new svn archive now includes the distribution folder as well as the source folder one of the many advantages of switching to svn)

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