Hexplore File Access Update

Hexplore File Access Update

My Hexplore program can now properly read and write to files. I copied some of the most important code from chastehex for the file access with the C standard library. I also now can access the arrow keys and even the page up/down keys on the keyboard in a more reliable way. This program is small and fast. Although it is relatively new, I could use it for small hex editing tasks.

One of my design decisions for this is that it only reads or write 256 bytes at one time. If bytes are modified, they only are saved to the file when the page changes or the program is terminated with the q key.

This program works well on my machine running Debian Linux. I suspect it should work on any Linux system because it uses only the C library and ANSI sequences which are used in Linux terminals. It would probably not work on Windows at all, but Windows users tend to dislike terminal interfaces anyway.

Not me, I am a writer and the text terminal is my safe place.