Freeware Hex Editor XVI32

The current release 2.12 is available since April 12, 2001. It comes with a complete online help and requires only 828 KB of hard disk space. There is no setup program needed - just unzip the downloaded archive to your hard disk! XVI32 doesn't write any data to the registry.

Currently, XVI32 is downloaded about 5,300 times per month directly from my homepage (i.e. without mirrors, freeware archives etc.). You can also view a list of the domains from where XVI32 was downloaded during July until September, 2000.

• Has now built-in script interpreter.
• Easily works with huge files. Try to open a 60 MB sized text file with some other hex editor (not to speak about Wordpad), then use XVI32... If you don't have such a huge text file, use my freeware tool RndFile to create one
• XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course)
• For your convenience, XVI32 stores settings and last used search strings etc. in XVI32.INI file
• Progress indication in percent for most operations
• You can abort nearly all operations (reading/writing files, search, replace, print...)
• Display of both text (ASCII/ANSI) and hexadecimal representation
• Two synchronous cursors in text and hex area
• Fully resizeable window (change number of rows and columns)
• Font and font size adjustable
• Overwrite or insert characters
• Insert text or hex string n times
• Switch byte offset (address) of first byte between 0 or 1 to examine also record structure of plain text files
• Search text or hex string, e.g. find "this text" or find "0D 0A"
• Search optionally with joker (wildcard) char that will match any character, e.g. find "A.C" or "00 2E 2E 00" where "." = "2E" (user-defined) stands for any character
• Fast searching algorithm (Quicksearch) for both search directions (down/up)
• Count occurences of text or hex string
• Replace text or hex string, e.g. replace "0D 0A" by "0A" or replace "0D 0A" by text "EOL"
• Extremely fast "replace all" mode (if needed, additional memory is allocated beforehead, not at every single replacing operation)
• Auto-fill feature to copy bytes from current address into input field for hex string using right arrow key
• Character conversion using self-defined character table
• Easy converting of text to hex string in dialogs (e.g. "abc" -> "61 62 63")
• Decoding and encoding of 1, 2, 4, and 8 byte integers or 4/8 byte floats in 2 possible byte orders
• Bit manipulation (view or set bits)
• Open file in Read Only Mode (e.g. if opened by another application or to avoid unintentional modifications)
• Insert file contents into file
• Write block to file
• Copy, move or delete block
• Clipboard support
• Goto address (absolute or relative up/down)
• Up to 9 named bookmarks
• Enter jump width and jump up/down (useful for files with fixed record length)
• Patch BORLAND PASCAL 7.0 EXE files for execution on processors > 200 MHz
• Printing with preview or print to file
• Easily access most recently used files
• Easily access your favorite directories
• No setup programm needed, doesn't write any data to registry
• And last, but not least: XVI32 is free!

What's New in version 2.1x

• Built-in script interpreter.
• 2.12: Background of disabled grid is now clBtnFace instead clInactiveBorder (guarantees visibility under special system color settings)
• Bugfix in 2.11: Script execution from the command line is now working under Windows NT, too.
• Up to 9 named bookmarks.
• New command Edit | overwrite string.
• New command Edit | Clipboard | paste from hex string.

Screenshots

• XVI32 main window
• Progress indication with abort option
• Insert text or hex string n times
• Find or count text or hex string
• Replace dialog
• Character conversion using self-defined table
• Goto address
• Encode and decode numbers
• Bit manipulation
• Set various options
• Print dialog
• Print preview
• Script interpreter

Download

• XVI32.EXE  (the executable)
• XVI32U.HLP (help file)
• XVI32U.CNT (help contents file)
• 6 character conversion tables (XCT files), e.g. to convert DOS codepage 850 to Windows codepage 1252, refer to screenshot
• README.TXT

Before downloading XVI32, you have to accept my license and disclaimer agreement.

Download XVI32 release 2.12 here (397 KB ZIP archive).

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