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by ygra 4005 days ago
Some hex editors allow you to actually define an ad-hoc data format to parse, e.g. http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/templates.html – it doesn't have to be ed(1) for hex data. Besides, it could just have been a choice of words meant to convey that they have a bunch of incomplete/corrupted data that needs manual interpretation.