HexEditCopyright � 1996-2008 Lane Roathe <www.roathe.

com>Based on the original,

Copyright � 1993 Jim Bumgardner <www.jbum.com>HexEdit is a file editor allowing you
to view and edit the data contained withn any file. The original (through v1.07) is
from Jim Bumgardner, Dave Polaschek released a version 1.1 and Nick Shanks released
a version 1.3, and many of his changes are now part of the official HexEdit
release. You can reach Nick at <hexedit@nickshanks.com> or on the web at
<http://nickshanks.com/hexedit>. I (Lane Roathe) have released "official" versions
from v1.1 through the current release, and you can get more information at my site
<http://www.roathe.com/hexedit.html>. The official HexEdit page is:
<http://hexedit.sf.net>I hope you find HexEdit useful! If you have suggestions or
bug reports please feel free to contact me (see below). As several people can
attest, I do listen :) Please be aware, however, that this is a FREE program and no
support of any kind is actually being offered.HexEdit is distributed under the
Mozilla Public License. Please refere to the file "license.txt" for details. Use of
these sources is an implied agreement to the terms of the license.* Notice of NO
Warranty *This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without any warranty; without even the warranty of merchantability or fitness for
any purpose. The entire risk of operation this program, as well as the risk of
quality and performance, resides soley with you! In no event with any of the
program authors be liable for any damage caused by the operation, or non-operation,
of this program!* USING A HEX EDITOR IS DANGEROUS! *Be sure to backup your data
before operating this program. It is possible to loose the entire contents of a
hard drive (or data on any type of storage device) by using this program!* New
features *Too many to list! (Really!) Please see the History.txt file in the
Documentation folder if you really want to see how things have evolved.* Compiling
the Code *The latest code and HexEdit development community can be found on
<http://hexedit.sourceforget.net>. The latest version of CodeWarrior is the
"Official" development environment, including the set of Apple's Universal Headers
and so forth that shipped with the latest version and all of it's updates.Other
development environments may be supported, just not "officially" :)* File Mappings
*

IMPORTANT NOTE: With the release of HexEdit v2.20 I think this issue has been
solved! If you have ever installed HexEdit before, you will need to delete ALL
copies of HexEdit from your computer, empty the trash and then put a clean copy of
v2.20 on.

Here is the older information in case it helps:

Several people have noticed that .dmg and other OS X files are being mapped to
HexEdit when downloaded. This is a major pain, hopefully this section will be able
to tell you why it is happening and impart enough information that you will be able
to correct it on your system.Apple has decided that Microsoft has the correct idea,
and all file should be typed by their 3 letter extension, and that the old reliable
file types are a bad idea. The result is that all Apple programs now do NOT assign
the file types and so if your web browser, ftp client or the system settings do
know know the 3 letter extension then it will (in most cases) get mapped to the
HexEdit file type. The system settings are changed in File Exchange in OS 9, but
you can't set these in OS X...yes, that's correct; in OS X only 3 letter file
extensions control file types, but you are not allowed to edit those assignments!In
Internet Explorer, you can set these by going to "Preferences" and the "File
Helpers" pane. You will notice that "Untyped binary data" is set to "HexEdit", and
that there is not a listing for ".dmg" extensions (you can click on the Extension
word to sort by extensions). To fix this, simply create a new entry, describe it as
"Disk Image", the the extension to ".dmg" and make sure you set it be a Macintosh
file of binary (not text) persuasion.Anyway, no one is more annoyed with this
entire problem than me (Lane), because I get the blame and yet I have no control
over the situation! However, there is a program that gives you back some of the
control over this situation:
 http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

It's FREE and it works for me :) Thanks to hardboiled for sending me the link!
* Translations *Japanese translation by: Hardboiled_egg <boiled@geocities.co.jp>
<http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley/5025/>French
translation by: Jean-Jacques Cortes <jjcortes@wanadoo.fr>
<http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jjcortes/>German translation by: Bruce Gehre
<bruce@gehre.org> <http://gehre.org/hexedit/>* From Jim's
original Docs *HexEdit is a hexdump viewer and editor that works similarly to the
hex editor provided with Apple's ResEdit. It allows you to edit either the data
fork or the resource fork of a file.I wrote HexEdit because I needed to be able to
insert/delete bytes from the data fork of files I was testing, and tools like FEdit
don't have insert/deletion.��������Examples of what HexEdit has been/can be used
for: Debugging: Examining debugging data (ie, raw ADB output, etc.)
Examine other programs' binary output for errors (AIFF, MIDI, etc.)
Spelunking: Examine/Edit the contents of a MIDI file. Examine
binary files received from the Internet to see what format they are in.
(MacBinary, Stuffit, etc.) Misc.: Figure out how Kanji is encoded in
a text file. Compare MS-Word format to RTF format. Examine the
data fork of MS-Word Application Recovery of damaged files, or at least portions
of data therefrom.