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BIEW - console hex viewer/editor and disassembler.
SYNOPSISbiew [OPTIONS] file...
DESCRIPTION
BIEW (Binary vIEW) is a free, portable, advanced file viewer with
built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes.
It contains a highlight PentiumIV/K7-Athlon/Cyrix-M2 disassembler, full
preview of MZ, NE, PE, LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch, coff32,
PharLap, rdoff executable formats, a code guider, and lot of other fea‐
tures, making it invaluable for examining binary code.
Refer to biew_en.txt and unix.txt files which should come along with
the program package for detailed description of what BIEW can do for
you -- this manual page describes only several UNIX-specific features,
and is quite useless without the above mentioned documents.
COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
-a autodetect mode (default)
-b view file in binary mode
-d view file in disassembler mode
-h view file in hexadecimal mode
-t view file in text mode
-s change size of file to NNN bytes (create, if file does not
exist)
-i ignore .ini file (create new)
-? display help screen
UNIX-specific features of BIEW
1) Key modifiers in terminal mode are re-mapped as:
CTRL+A = ALT
CTRL+C = CTRL
CTRL+S = SHIFT
i.e. pressing CTRL+A acts as holding down ALT , and so on. CTRL+Z
resets modifiers to defaults. Modifiers are also reseted after any
function key is pressed.
[except for BIEW/LINUX in console mode]
2) There are several limitations on output in terminal mode, i.e. you
can't see all characters as they are (output is filtered to avoid unex‐
pected behavior).
[except for BIEW/LINUX in console mode]
3) It is possible to use 7bit output.
4) Configuration file is ~/.biewrc, not biew.ini.
Linux-specific features
Current Linux version of BIEW supports two work modes: console and
VT100 compatible terminal. Console version can act EXACTLY as
dos/os2/win32 version, this means that you can't switch virtual con‐
soles by pressing ALT+Fx, because these keys are used by BIEW -- use
CTRL+ALT+Fx combination for that purpose.
Terminal mode should work on any VT100 compatible terminal.
Linux console version uses:
- scan codes (not keystrokes)
- direct video output via /dev/vcsa
IMPORTANT! Console mode is invoked only:
1) if "Direct console access" flag is enabled (F9)
2) on pure virtual terminal
In any other case VT100 mode is used.
BUGS
There could be few. You can fix them on your own, or ask authors to do
it.
AUTHOR
BIEW is written by
Nickols_K <nickols_k@mail.ru>.
UNIX ports are done by
Konstantin Boldyshev <konst@linuxassembly.org>.
BIEW homepage is at http://biew.sourceforge.net
UNIX $Date: 2009/09/03 16:57:41 $ biew(1)
