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0xF4EE

November 24th, 2006

Hex Fiend 1.1.1 is now available open source under a BSD-style license. Hex Fiend is my fast and clever free open source hex editor for Mac OS X.

I hope you find Hex Fiend useful for whatever purpose, but if you are interested in contributing changes on an ongoing basis, I’ll be happy to grant Subversion commit privileges to some interested developers who submit quality patches. There is a wiki aimed at developers accessible from the page, but daily builds, mailing lists, or discussion boards are also a possibility. You can contact me at the e-mail address at the bottom of the Hex Fiend page if you are interested in any of these.

Version 1.1.1 has some important bug fixes (see the release notes), so you should upgrade even if you are not interested in the source.

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John C. Randolph

Excellent news! HexFiend wil be a great jumping-off point for all kinds of file examination/repair functionality.

Thanks, Peter!
-jcr

John C. Randolph

Excellent news! HexFiend wil be a great jumping-off point for all kinds of file examination/repair functionality.

Thanks, Peter!
-jcr

John C. Randolph

Hmm… I could have sworn I only hit that submit button once. Maybe I need to file a Safari bug.
-jcr

Scott Stevenson

You the man. Thanks.

Wevah

Sweet!

Conor

Now I can improve my programming skills by perusing code done by a real professional. A good license makes it even better I can just include it in my projects and let it do its magic.

Thank you for sharing.

Johannes Fortmann

This is soo great! Thank you very much.

Anonymous

Nice of you to release source code :-)

chad

Here’s a way to view 0xF4EE:

ruby -e “puts ['0xF4EE'.hex].pack(’U*’)”

… and then view it with LargeType ( http://www.coldpizzasoftware.com/largetype/ )

(Sorry, it’s not perfectly OT, just couldn’t resist.)

Edward

Thank you very much for open sourcing HexFiend!

Rainer Brockerhoff

Thanks a bunch Peter! I think this will help me a lot. More details at the end of this post.

Adam Roan

this software is absolutely incredible.

I bought a Macbook Pro just so I could use this software.

it’s that incredible.

Steve

I would *love* for this to be ported to GNUstep. Please?

mgsloan

Looks very nice, but I’m not going to get a mac any time soon.

I think a gtk port/view is in order.

David

By the way, the great (but no longer maintained) application Resourcerer (http://www.mathemaesthetics.com/ResorcererIndex.html) had a great hex editor. One feature that it had was the ability for the user to insert cosmetic “carriage returns” into the stream. This made it possible to more easily parse binary file formats. If I find some time I’ll try to add this to hexfiend.