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- Description
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hc is based on an ancient tool I wrote it back in the late 1980s
using the SEKA-Assember under AmigaOS 1.2 to be able to
examine binary files. This hex dumper used to be more comfortable
and featured than the -h-option of the type tool.
When I ported it to Unix in 1992 I kept the handwritten
binary-to-ASCII-hex encoding just for fun. This time,
it was not based on hand optimized M68k-code, but at least
better than just using printf("%x"). However, the code is not
optimized for Unix at all, using a large amount of
read(1) system calls to read in small chunks of data.
Since hc was the first tool I ever wrote under Linux it
may be regarded as a programming practice rather than a
highly efficient tool.
hc offers many interesting options (even more than the
hexdump(1) utility being available in those days),
although not as much as it could. Maybe I should go
through the code again when its tenth Unix anniversary
draws near.
- Manual
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Online manual.
- Download
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The latest version is hc-0.1.2.tar.gz.
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