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biew(1) 		     General Commands Manual			 biew(1)

NAME
     BIEW - console hex viewer/editor and disassembler.

SYNOPSIS
     biew [OPTIONS] file...

DESCRIPTION
     BIEW  (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with built-in
     editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes.

     It contains a  highlight  PentiumIV/K7-Athlon/Cyrix-M2  disassembler,  full
     preview  of  MZ,  NE,  PE,  LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch, coff32,
     PharLap, rdoff executable formats, a code guider, and  lot  of  other  fea-
     tures, making it invaluable for examining binary code.

     Refer  to	biew_en.txt  and unix.txt files which should come along with the
     program package for detailed description of what BIEW can	do  for  you  --
     this  manual  page  describes  only  several UNIX-specific features, and is
     quite useless without the above mentioned documents.

COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
     -a     autodetect mode (default)

     -b     view file in binary mode

     -d     view file in disassembler mode

     -h     view file in hexadecimal mode

     -t     view file in text mode

     -s     change size of file to NNN bytes (create, if file does not exist)

     -i     ignore .ini file (create new)

     -?     display help screen

UNIX-specific features of BIEW
     1)  Key modifiers in terminal mode are re-mapped as:

     CTRL+A = ALT

     CTRL+C = CTRL

     CTRL+S = SHIFT

     i.e. pressing CTRL+A acts as holding down ALT , and so on.   CTRL+Z  resets
     modifiers to defaults. Modifiers are also reseted after any function key is
     pressed.

     [except for BIEW/LINUX in console mode]

     2)   There  are  several  limitations  on output in terminal mode, i.e. you
     can't see all characters as they are (output is  filtered	to  avoid  unex-
     pected behavior).

     [except for BIEW/LINUX in console mode]

     3)  It is possible to use 7bit output.

     4)  Configuration file is ~/.biewrc, not biew.ini.

Linux-specific features
     Current  Linux  version  of BIEW supports two work modes: console and VT100
     compatible terminal. Console version can act EXACTLY as dos/os2/win32  ver-
     sion, this means that you can't switch virtual consoles by pressing ALT+Fx,
     because these keys are used by BIEW -- use CTRL+ALT+Fx combination for that
     purpose.

     Terminal mode should work on any VT100 compatible terminal.

     Linux console version uses:
	    - scan codes (not keystrokes)
	    - direct video output via /dev/vcsa

     IMPORTANT! Console mode is invoked only:
	    1) if "Direct console access" flag is enabled (F9)
	    2) on pure virtual terminal

     In any other case VT100 mode is used.

BUGS
     There could be few.  You can fix them on your own, or ask authors to do it.

AUTHOR
     BIEW is written by
     Nickols_K <nickols_k@mail.ru>.

     UNIX ports are done by
     Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>.

     BIEW homepage is at http://biew.sourceforge.net

UNIX			  $Date: 2009/09/03 16:57:41 $			 biew(1)

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