[aclug-L] Re: Taking over the development of KHexEdit, but...

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All I can say is my personal usage of a 'HEXEDITOR' have been to alter a
program directly to and from its storage media. And most past usages have
not been 100% legal, but to alter / unlock pass codes.

I have had three legal uses for a HEXEDITOR;
(1) To read a sector from a damaged floppy and write this data back to a
good floppy correcting the file so that a good percentage of the data was
recovered.
(2) Alter a password in a locked program at the request of an office manager
so that the manager could access the data files of a former employee
(3) I know that many years ago I use to write programs in Z80 machine code
(don't ask too many (11+) years since I tried to do that) and using a
HEXEDITOR and write this executables codes directly to media.  But I did not
have access to an interpreter such as 'C' that would compile the code into
machine code.

--David



----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick R. Klee" <trekkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 2:56 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Taking over the development of KHexEdit, but...


> Hello,
>     I am taking over the development of KHexEdit, the hex editor for
> KDE.  There is, however one problem, I need to read up on what a
> hexidecimal editor is for.  Can someone suggest a website, or even a
> book at the library, to read up on what a hex editor does?
> --
>       ~     Patrick R. Klee
>    .     .   trekkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   /   V   \   "Fighting for the "free" world."
>  /(       )\
>     ^^_^^
>
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