---
name: "biew"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "biew"
version: "5.6.2-2"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/biew"
---

# biew(1)

Binary Viewer

## NAME

biew - Binary Viewer

## SYNOPSIS

**biew** *\[options\] \[file...\]*\

## DESCRIPTION

Biew  is a Binary  vIEWer  with   built-in   editor   for   binary, hexadecimal and disassembler modes. The program also has  text  viewer with different  Russia  codepages  support  (Windows-1251,  MSDOS-866, etc.). Run the program with  -?  or  without  arguments  for  help  on program switches.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options are included below. For a complete description, see /usr/share/doc/biew/biew\_en.txt.

- **-?**

  Show summary of 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)

## AUTHOR

Biew was written by Nick Kurshev \<nickols\_k@mail.ru\> and is maintained on Linux/UNIX by Konstantin Boldyshev \<konst@linuxassembly.org\>

This manual page was written by Stefan Alfredsson\
 \<stefan@alfredsson.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).