Talk:Hex editor

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°==More Information== Can somebody put in more information, such as what the different columns mean and/or how to use a hex editor? Thanks. -anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.213.247.14 (talk) 00:28, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

I love it when I can quickly find a program to download when I'm using Wikipedia... but this page has too many links! If we should keep any of them at all, then I suggest those that aren't open source (or at least freeware) to be removed. - Roma_emu 00:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Whoever removed the links, shouldn't have. I got HxD from this page, now I had to go to history to get it. I am putting the links back. 14:32, 22 May 2007 (EDT)

Wikipedia is not a repository of links, it's an encyclopedia. See policy at WP:NOT#LINK. Rwxrwxrwx 09:56, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Large file viewing

Almost all modern text editors read the whole file into memory in order to work with it. This makes even just browsing/viewing large files awkward and slow -- sometimes impossible, if they do not fit into memory. So, a person wanting to view a large text file needs to use a hex editor, because some of them are able to browse through large files directly, without having to load the whole file into memory first. Some hex editors are probably better than others at displaying text nicely. See "Maximum file size" and "Partial file loading" columns in Comparison of hex editors. Are there any particularly good guides to "Viewing large text files"? -69.87.200.124 12:12, 17 August 2007 (UTC)