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About fb
fb
is a utility for the viewing and editing of binary files.
Files can be viewed in binary, decimal, hexadecimal, and octal, and/or
characters. In addition to simple overwriting, a binary file may be dumped
as binary, hexadecimal, decimal, or octal numbers; edited with one's favorite
text editor; and then translated back into a binary
file.
fb
also has methods for appending and copying sections
of a file, replacing sections of a file with a particular value, and a
method for comparing files: showing differences in either binary, decimal,
hexadecimal, or octal.
fb ( using no wintel software or hardware )
was developed using both the
Free Software Foundation's GNU Emacs
(Extensible Modifiable Algorithmic Computer System)
and the C compiler portion of the GNU Compiler Collection, gcc, on an
AMD K6 processor machine running the
Red Hat 5.0 distribution of
GNU/Linux and is distributed under the
terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL).