Overview XVI32 is a freeware hex editor running under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. The name XVI32 is derived from XVI, the roman notation for the number 16. XVI32 and all of its components are developed by myself (except for RxPopupMenu from RxLib which I'm using since version 1.6). The current release 2.51 is available since August 2, 2003. It comes with a complete online help and requires only 975 KB of hard disk space. There is no setup program needed - just unzip the downloaded archive to your hard disk! XVI32 doesn't write any data to your registry.
Currently, XVI32 is downloaded over 18,000 times per month from my homepage (i.e. without mirrors, freeware archives etc.). A more detailed statistic is also available as well as a list of the domains from where XVI32 was downloaded during January, 2003. Between April 15, 2000 (first release) and January 31, 2003 XVI32 has been downloaded 258,666 times from my homepage. Thank you!
Even people at Microsoft ™ do use XVI32! If you don't believe me, look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835840/EN-GB/.
Today, XVI32 is a valuable tool for thousands of people all over the world. This is a thread from the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup (May 2001):
>>Has anyone heard of or used the freeware hex editor "XVI32 (version 2.1)"? >>Any good or what? >I have been a regular user of XVI32 ver 2.01 and find it extremely >easy to use. Very fast search, large file size capability etc.
And this e-mail was sent on October 11, 2001 by an employee of SPSS Inc., the major statistical software company: Your tool was EXACTLY what me and a friend needed to reformat huge text files correctly. This XVI tool ROCKS!!! Thanks for making it! :-)
You can read even more feedbacks or this nice story. If you don't know what a hex editor is and why some people need such a tool, have a look at my short explanation. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact the author. Before writing your mail, please read the following guidelines. XVI32 was built with Borland Delphi.
Features XVI32 has the following main features. Especially note the highlighted advantages of XVI32. data inspector to view decoded numbers (see screen shot; can be turned off). Has built-in script interpreter. Easily works with huge files. Try to open a 60 MB sized text file with some other hex editor (not to speak about Wordpad), then use XVI32... If you don't have such a huge text file, use my freeware tool RndFile to create one XVI32 allows to edit files up to 2 GB (enough virtual memory provided, of course) For your convenience, XVI32 stores settings and last used search strings etc. in XVI32.INI file Progress indication in percent for most operations You can abort nearly all operations (reading/writing files, search, replace, print...) Display of both text (ASCII/ANSI) and hexadecimal representation Two synchronous cursors in text and hex area Fully resizeable window (change number of rows and columns) Font and font size adjustable Overwrite or insert characters Insert text or hex string n times Switch byte offset (address) of first byte between 0 or 1 to examine also record structure of plain text files Search text or hex string, e.g. find "this text" or find "0D 0A" Simplified search for Unicode Latin (UTF-16) strings Search optionally with joker (wildcard) char that will match any character, e.g. find "A.C" or "00 2E 2E 00" where "." = "2E" (user-defined) stands for any character Fast searching algorithm (Quicksearch) for both search directions (down/up) Count occurences of text or hex string Replace text or hex string, e.g. replace "0D 0A" by "0A" or replace "0D 0A" by text "EOL" Extremely fast "replace all" mode (if needed, additional memory is allocated beforehead, not at every single replacing operation) Auto-fill feature to copy bytes from current address into input field for hex string using right arrow key Character conversion using self-defined character table Easy converting of text to hex string in dialogs (e.g. "abc" -> "61 62 63") Decoding and encoding of 1, 2, 4, and 8 byte integers or 4/8 byte floats in 2 possible byte orders Bit manipulation (view or set bits) Open file in Read Only Mode (e.g. if opened by another application or to avoid unintentional modifications) Insert file contents into file Write block to file Copy, move or delete block Clipboard support Goto address (absolute or relative up/down) Up to 9 named bookmarks Enter jump width and jump up/down (useful for files with fixed record length) Patch BORLAND PASCAL 7.0 EXE files for execution on processors > 200 MHz Printing with preview or print to file Simplified search for Unicode Latin (UTF-16) strings Wheel mouse support Command "Reload" to open current file again Easily access most recently used files No setup programm needed, doesn't write any data to registry And last, but not least: XVI32 is free!
What's New in version 2.51 Now running on systems with > 2 GB virtual memory Bugfix: script command CHARCON is now working Bugfix 2.51: menu item "Character Conversion..." is now working
