From: uz@wuschel.ibb.schwaben.com (Ullrich von Bassewitz)
Subject: HexEd - small hex editor
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:36:14 GMT

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In the last years I've got several request for a new version of HexEd, or
at least one compiled for libc5. However several problems with the tools
available for Linux prohibited releasing a new version. But now, since
egcs is somewhat more up-to-date with the current C++ standard and
there's a glibc supporting threads, I'm proud to announce


                           HexEd version 1.2


A short description is appended below. If you know version 1.1, here's
a list of changes:

  * Better X support (-geometry and -fn are recognized, Alt key
    handling improved).

  * Somewhat faster screen update.

  * Many minor improvements (it's so long, I forgot most of them :-)

  * Distribution changed. There's now a source tgz for real men,
    and source and binary RPMs for the rest of the world.
    But beware: HexEd *needs* glibc/egcs. There's no way around this.


One last word: If you don't like it, please don't use it. Don't write
me mails telling me what a weird type of guy I am, writing Linux apps
that look like DOS programs. I know that already, thank you.


That said, here's the description:


What it is
- ----------

HexEd is a small binary editor. It features

  * a user friendly, menu driven interface
  * multiple windows (great for manually comparing binaries!)
  * multiple operating system support (DOS, OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD)
  * national language support (currently english and german
    are supported - more languages may be added without recompiling)
  * freeware, even for commercial use
  * full source code

HexEd has been developed using a portable C++ class library for
creating text mode applications that can be compiled for DOS, OS/2,
Linux and FreeBSD without even changing a single source line and
without any #define's in your application source.

HexEd is completely menu driven and has most things you expect from a
text mode DOS program even under the UNIX like operating systems. It
supports colors and the IBM line drawing chars on the linux console.



Where to get it
- ---------------

Server:	  	ftp.gwdg.de
Directory:	/pub/misc/hexed
Files:          hexed-1.2.tar.gz     (Sources)
                hexed-1.2-1.rpm      (Binaries in RPM format)
                hexed-1.2-1-src.rpm  (Sources in RPM format)

I will also upload the RPMs at ftp.redhat.com. You should hopefully
find them in the contrib directory in the near future.


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                              uz@ibb.schwaben.com



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