Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 18:36:04 +0000 From: Miguel Gocobachi <miguel@gocobachi.dev> To: hexpeek@hexpeek.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hex editor for huge files Message-ID: <0477c894-cf60-4708-422c-6ee6e7baba85@gocobachi.dev> In-Reply-To: <a79dda4646e48156ddccac9f53e6174b@hexpeek.com> References: <a79dda4646e48156ddccac9f53e6174b@hexpeek.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) -----------------------25ff2336dba25e781079de95236ab2e4 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 11:23:12 -0700 From: Miguel Gocobachi <miguel@gocobachi.dev> In-Reply-To: <a79dda4646e48156ddccac9f53e6174b@hexpeek.com> Message-Id: <0477c894-cf60-4708-422c-6ee6e7baba85@gocobachi.dev> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <9IgqFCh1jPhFoCGMFDTM92s3kTREISkMlym6bmvRhsybVkoG4_R6snZ4X7c6jTA67aLnbVIPb8sLLQoFdjed9A==@protonmail.internalid> <B84n2ZeMJS76N3JQV2YvfUBe6Ak_Ql9-3HEE47rPkrM12q4OwSobW1JNX_9OB9zkMdZ9iNvsG5FfHZrktDyjXQ==@protonmail.conversationid> <a79dda4646e48156ddccac9f53e6174b@hexpeek.com> Subject: Re: hex editor for huge files To: hexpeek@hexpeek.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Hi, First of all. Thanks for sharing. If you want to add this program to the FreeBSD ports, I made the diff for you, so you can be the maintainer. https://bsd.to/dEwd just go ahead and make a new bug at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ enjoy! On 7/7/20 9:38 AM, hexpeek@hexpeek.com wrote: > hexpeek: a hex editor for huge files > > Occasionally I need to work with huge binary files. Over the years I've > tried many different tools and never found one that was exactly what I > wanted. In my experience most hex editors either (1) do not work well > with 4GB+ files or (2) require the user to learn a curses interface and > are not scriptable. > > So I ended up creating a hex editor with some nice features: > 1. prompt interface with command history (with libedit) > 2. scriptable interface with a flexible command language > 3. no glitches on huge files -- no reading until user requests > 4. fully functional insert and delete > 5. multi-level backup and restore > 6. ability to dump generic file descriptors > 7. work in hexadecimal and with 64 bit file offsets by default > 8. BSD 3-clause license > 9. and more... > > If interested, please check out the project at https://www.hexpeek.com > or send e-mail to hexpeek@hexpeek.com. > > hexpeek is known to work on Debian, CentOS, FreeBSD, and Cygwin and is > expected to work on any recent POSIX-like system. I look forward to > improving hexpeek based on community feedback. Please let me know what > features you are looking for in a hex/metadata editor. > > About the author: visit https://www.resiliware.com for more about me. > > Thanks for reading! -- -o ) Miguel Gocobachi / \ \ Software Engineer _\_V www.gocobachi.dev -----------------------25ff2336dba25e781079de95236ab2e4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wmgEARYIABAFAl8EwJIJEAQfdoz9qPm8AAoJEAQfdoz9qPm8xt8BAJde8vUw iGKLU75AcYrxcevkWt5Ztcx8ZOViKRj1f5q7AQDE/tu3GwgtZH+zhvIes+de Lr2mQ8r2yYjglLaKWUlmBw== =pKIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----------------------25ff2336dba25e781079de95236ab2e4--
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