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CHEXEDIT(1)		     General Commands Manual		     CHEXEDIT(1)

NAME
     chexedit - Full screen curses Hex editor

SYNOPSIS
     chexedit [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION
     Chexedit  is an editor to edit binary (or any) files or disks.  The Display
     consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte),  the  next  sixteen
     bytes  (aligned  by  bytes  or 32-bit words), and it's ASCII or EBCDIC text
     representation.

OPTIONS
     -h, --help
	    Display help

     -8, --highbit
	    Display 8-bit text

     -a, --alltext
	    Display all text regardless that you know better

     -b, --buffer
	    Buffer the entire file into memory.  Faster, and enables insert  and
	    delete.

     -d, --disk
	    File editing is a disk.  OpenBSD and Linux only.

     -f, --force
	    Force  editing  of	a  disk.   Need this option to enable writing to
	    disks.

     -q, --quiet
	    Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping.

     -r, --readonly
	    Do not allow modifying the file

     -v, --version
	    Display version number

Commands and keys
     ^A     Insert byte

     Insert
	    Insert byte

     ^D     Delete byte

     Delete
	    Delete byte

     ^E     viEw as text dump

     ^F     Page down

     ^V     Page down

     Page Down
	    Page down

     ^B     Page Up

     ^Y     Page Up

     Alt-V  Page Up

     Page Up
	    Page Up

     Tab    Switch from hex to text representation

     ^I     Switch from hex to text representation

     ^T     goTo offset

     ^G     Get help

     ^L     Redraw screen

     ^C     Quit without saving

     ^O     Save

     ^X     Save and Quit

     ^W     Search (text/hex)

     ^N     find Next

     ^U     Undo

     ^R     ASCII <=> EBCDIC

     ^P     Switch Spacings

     ^+     Binary Calculator

Author
     Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net>

See Also
     od (1)

BUGS
     Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD.

     Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you  might  find.
     This  man page is intentionally brief.  Please Read the included documenta-
     tion in Texinfo format for additional information

								     CHEXEDIT(1)

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