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Linux List

A Linux clone of Vernon D. Buerg's List file viewer
Copyright 2009-2016 Adam Nielsen malvineous@shikadi.net
https://github.com/Malvineous/linuxlist

This program is still very early in development, so there is still much to implement before it becomes as useful as the original List.

Features:

  • Hex viewer, with full 8-bit CP437 glyphs (UTF8 console required), so that binary files look like they did under DOS.

  • Adjustable byte size. Viewing data as nine-bits per "byte" helps considerably when examining LZW-compressed data. Both big and little endian splitting is supported.

  • Hex view supports hex editing (via byte values and direct text entry)

  • Can seek at the byte level or the bit level, which is useful for tracing algorithms that operate on a stream of bits rather than on bytes.

The utility is compiled and installed in the usual way:

./autogen.sh          # Only if compiling from git
./configure && make
sudo make install

You will need the following prerequisites already installed:

This program is released under the GPLv3 license.

Screenshots

This is the hex view in Xorg, using the VGA font borrowed from DOSBox:

Screenshot of hex view in console

This is the hex view using the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator with the Terminus font:

Screenshot of hex view in Xorg

This is the hex view showing nine bits per byte, which reveals ASCII characters in some LZW-compressed data. Note the data is being edited in this mode as well:

Screenshot of hex view showing 9-bit bytes

Fonts

When running in a terminal emulator (automatic if the DISPLAY environment variable is empty), use of a Unicode font that supports CP437 glyphs is recommended. Without this, most terminal emulators will pull the glyphs from a fallback font, which usually looks quite bad.

For the rxvt-unicode terminal and the Terminus font (used for the screenshots above), this is done by ensuring the ISO10646 encoding is used. This can be done by adding the following to ~/.Xresources:

Rxvt*font:                -*-terminus-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
Rxvt*boldFont:            -*-terminus-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*

Run xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources to reload the file, then any new rxvt-unicode terminal windows will correctly display control characters.

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