What's a Hex Editor?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone tell me what a Hex Editor is and where I can find one?
Thanks in advance

[jstolz]

A hex editor is an editor just like notepad is an editor, however, hex editors edit files in hex. That means that you can open executable files (well, actually any kind of file) and edit the hex value of each byte. Usually, hex editors have a 3-pane display: The left pane displays the byte offset (16 bytes/row), the middle pane displays the 2 digit value comprising each byte, and the right pane shows the ASCII equivilent of each byte of data.

You can get these things anywhere... my favorite is HexEdit over at
http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/program-misc.html You'll need to scroll quite a ways down to find it.

Regards...