Re: [MacPerl] Hex Editor for Mac

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>I'm writing a MacPerl program that needs to manipulate a binary file (the
>datafork portion of a Mac file - actually a DOS 'DbaseIII' file that has
>been copied to a Mac).  What if any binary file editor exists that will let
>me view the contents of this file in hexadecimal, to help me in the
>development of this program?  Hopefully something 'free', or low cost, might
>exist.  Thank you.

I seem to recall having once used a little exstension call "Forker" to do 
this.  Basically it gave ResEdit the ability to read the data fork of 
files.  It's long gone, but there are a couple of neat programs on 
Info-Mac (HexEdit 1.2 and GeneralEdit Lite) that will do the trick.


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