Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-26 Thread Alex Karpovic
That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device allows writes) write it back to the device. Of course, not all

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-26 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Karpovic wrote: That in mind, what's wrong with bpatch? I've used it for binary patching, it works just fine that that (if my first assumption is totally off-base). You download from the device, change any required data, and (if the device

hex editors, disk info

2009-01-25 Thread Alex Karpovic
Friends, I need a hex editor able to work directly with disks, preferably those, which can be started without X. I tried hexcurse, chexedit, bpatch - and it seems that they are unable to open /dev/something. Also, I would like to know about a tool to show low-level disk information. For example,

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:51:45 +0200 Alex Karpovic alekar2...@gmail.com wrote: I need a hex editor able to work directly with disks, preferably those, which can be started without X. I tried hexcurse, chexedit, bpatch - and it seems that they are unable to open /dev/something. Have you tried

Fwd: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-25 Thread Alex Karpovic
I need a hex editor able to work directly with disks, preferably those, which can be started without X. I tried hexcurse, chexedit, bpatch - and it seems that they are unable to open /dev/something. Have you tried /usr/bin/hd? It seems it doesn't have any problem opening disk devices.