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Viewing and editing binary files

Viewing and editing binary files

Select Open binary... (File menu, Shift Ctrl O) to open binary files for editing in hexadecimal C format.

Binary mode is not essentially different in editing behaviour than a standard text window. The C representation of the file can be changed as you would edit a text file.

When Save is selected from a binary editing window, you are offered the choice to save the C representation or to compile it back into the (modified) binary file itself.

SYNTAX

The text in a binary editing window is interpreted as a sequence of hexadecimal bytes. C sugaring such as commas, curly brackets and 0x prefixes is optional. Text between C comments (/*, */) is ignored.

To check the syntactic correctness of your changes, select the changed lines and with the mouse and choose Format paragraph (Text menu, Alt Shift P).


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