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Version 3.3
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Welcome to the documentation for AXE v3.3, an analytical structured hex editor for Windows.
95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP.
User Guide
Click here for the table of contents. This
documentation is provided with AXE as a .CHM file, for reading with Microsoft's
HTML Help System. It is also available on the web at the
AXE homepage.
What's New in 3.3
Version 3.3 adds some often-requested features and experimental features, while keeping
core functionality much the same.
- A grammar generator is provided to find patterns and repetitions in unknown data
- Some simple statistical functions are added
- A 'quick view' pane is added. This is a docking window with two views that display and edit the data under the cursor in various ways, and
one view that shows information about the current document
- Bookmarks no longer have to be 'imported' and 'exported' with menu commands; the bookmark window now contains a collection of stored bookmark lists that can be saved
and loaded at any time.
- The 'normal' view now has an EBCDIC mode as well as ASCII and Unicode(UCS2)
- The status bar has a few new indicators, clipboard and codepage/character set
What Was New in 3.2
3.2 added some significant functionality in response to user feedback:
- There is full search-and-replace functionality, rather than the search-mark-arithmetic system that was traditionally used in AXE
- The dialog box for specifying code set and code page is gone, replaced with a regular font selection box and a heuristic for guessing the code page
- You can search for strings and replace them with strings of different length
- Search/Replace results can be automatically bookmarked
Editing behaviour when selecting/dragging bytes has been changed to feel better and be more in line with modern Windows editors.
There were also a number of changes to correct visual quirks and interface inconsistencies.
What Was New in 3.1
3.1 was an interim release which mainly focused on fixing some minor bugs in 3.0. The full list of changes is:
- Color schemes are somewhat improved and it is now possible to see the effect of color changes as you make them, and to have a light-on-dark display
- Moving one document window over another could cause annoying graphical artifacts on some systems -- fixed
- Exporting and then importing some bookmarks would cause them to appear in random order -- fixed
- The structure and bookmark list could get out of sync with the actual document -- fixed
- Some extremely minor bug fixes
What Was New in 3.0
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The ability to edit any file, no matter how gigantic, plus new 'Huge File' mode
which allows access to huge files without stressing the system in any way.
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The ability to edit physical disks, disk partitions, physical memory, and even
the memory spaces of other processes.
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Expressions which can be applied to a document to transform the data or earch
for patterns.
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The much-requested diff functionality.
There are also a host of minor enhancements such as improved editing
(backspace), a workspace window that lists structures and bookmarks for easy
access, CRC32 checksums, and more.
Registration
Go to the AXE registration page at
http://www.jbrowse.com/products/axe/register.html for information about
registering AXE 3.
Contact Information
Copyright
The AXE 3 program and this documentation, are Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Benjamin
Peterson. Portions of AXE are Copyright (C) 1998 Chris Maunder.
License and Warranty
Please see the readme.txt and license.txt
files that are included in the AXE 3 distribution.
What Will Be New in 4.0
Features planned for version 4 include full scriptability and embeddability, XML-defined structures, the ability to specify and position structures programmatically, character set guessing and conversion, and the ability to chunk documents and display them section by section.