Feature List

Individual needs may vary, but we believe that no other hex editor is as powerful as AXE 3 (if you disagree, please feel free to contact us).

Features

Work with huge files

AXE's sophisticated memory management means that opening a 60 megabyte file is a fast operation that won't stress your computer. It is well-nigh impossible to run out of RAM using AXE. Not only that, but for enormous files (up to 2G should be okay) there is a special 'Huge File Mode' that uses almost no RAM at all!

Mark changes, mark diffs, mark what you like

AXE highlights changed areas, diffs, and regions that you have decided should be marked to make navigating around the file easy

Powerful, modern editing environment

Cut-and-paste, drag-n-drop, Unicode support -- all the things you expect in a Windows text editing environment are there for you in AXE, plus some extras like saveable bookmark lists.

Search for any type

Search for any type of numerical or string record. Search and replace strings. For more complex cases, use the Arithmetic feature. For still more complex ones, use the Expressions feature.

Edit disks, memory, processes

You can open not just files but physical disks, logical drives, physical memory, and even the virtual memory of other processes.

Diff

Both simple byte-for-byte diff and a more advanced version that can find inserts and deletes are available

Base Converter / Calculator

We believe that if you need a simple push-button calculator you can use the one that comes with Windows. That's why the AXE calculator is a powerful command-line calculator whose syntax includes loops, variables, even arrays. Because sometimes you need to do a calculation that isn't just basic arithmetic.

Quickview data as any type or structure

New in 3.3, the quick view windows displays detailed information about the data under the cursor.

Expressions

Create and run C-like expressions to transform the document, search for complex patterns, or whatever you want.

Structures

Define a structure, view your document as that structure, edit the document through the structure.

Arithmetic

Apply any operator to any range of bytes.

Multilevel Undo

No limit on how many levels

Report Generation

In text or HTML, using your own color scheme

Checksum Generation

CRC32, SHA1, MD5, and many others

Navigation

Jump, goto, bookmarks... a full set of navigation tools.

Other things

We could list every last little feature in AXE here, but there should be no need. It should go without saying that you can cut and paste unicode text or binary data, that you can change colors and display parameters, that you can zoom in and out of a file or scroll a file past a structure template to see if any data fits... we just won't list all these little things, because life is too short.

---