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by ivanhoe 1875 days ago
speaking of this, what hex editor would community recommend for examining (potentially quite large) binaries?
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I haven't gotten my hands dirty with it myself yet, but Poke looks super interesting!

https://www.jemarch.net/poke

https://media.ccc.de/v/ASG2019-127-gnu-poke-an-extensible-ed...

Actually, it sounds like a fun weekend task to redo this GeoTIFF writeup in Poke :-)

I typed .doc without a TOPIC and poke segfaulted. Oh well.

The hex editor I rely on for multi-GB files is ired.

On the Mac, I cannot recommend Hex Fiend enough: https://hexfiend.com/
ImHex