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tweak (ncurses-based hex editor)
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Tweak is a hex editor. It allows you to edit a file at very low level,
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letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can be
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useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk or CD
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images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats incorrectly,
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and many other things.
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Tweak uses a complex data structure based on B-trees, designed to make
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almost all editing operations extremely fast, even when they are working
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on huge amounts of data.
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Tweak supports insert mode (not particularly useful if you're editing
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an executable file or a filesystem image, but can be extremely handy in
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other file formats such as PNG).
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Cutting, copying and pasting within the file you are editing is extremely
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efficient. No matter how big the chunk of data you are moving around -
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even if it's a 200Mb section of a CD image - Tweak will always perform
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the operation effectively instantly.
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Tweak supports lazy loading of the input file: rather than sucking it
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all into memory straight away, it simply remembers which parts of the
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editing buffer are copies of which parts of the input file and refers to
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the file on disk when it needs to.
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