biew(1)

biew1

Binary viewer

Usage

biew [options] [file ...]

Overview

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)

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1
  3. 4.0

Author

Biew was written by Nick Kurshev <[email protected]> and is maintained on Linux/UNIX by Konstantin Boldyshev <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Stefan Alfredsson
<[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From biew 5.6.2-2 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.