Hex Workshop alternative

[briansvgs]

Hello,

I found the program hex workshop while I was at work earlier. It's a great hex editor with a built in structure viewer (it let's you create structures in a C++ like syntax that it then loads from a file and allows you to view memory in the file the way it looks in the program), but unfortunately it's only for windows. Do any of you know of an equivalent for linux?

Thanks,
Brian

[NathanB]

No, but I know where to go looking if I were hunting for such a thing...

First stop: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=hex+editor&searchon=all&suite=all&section=all

If none of those are appealing, then try...

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=hex+editor

http://freshmeat.net/search?q=hex+editor&submit=Search

[thomas9459]

You could try using wine to run it on Ubuntu.

[briansvgs]

Thank you. I had looked through the synaptic repositories and done some googling, but hadn't been able to find anything. I am aware of wine, but was hoping that the open source community had a free version that they had developed (hex workshop is commercial). I will check sourceforge and freshmeat.

Thanks,
Brian

[briansvgs]

Just returning my findings. I spent several hours (probably 5 - 8 ) last weekend searching for an alternative and could not find any for linux. I did find a few commercial ones for windows (HexEdit, Hex Workshop, Hex Editor Neo). I am considering writing a plugin for bless eventually (it's backend is being rewritten at the moment and I would like to wait until this is done). If I end up doing so, then I will release it back to the community.