If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

The error Cannot Execute Binary File: Exec Format Error is generally encountered in Unix or similar OS landscapes, especially Linux. Windows users running BASH have ...

(1) Numbers stored in pure binary form in contrast to their decimal representation. See binary numbers and binary file. (2) All data/information stored in the computer, which is coded in binary. See ...

HxD is a freeware editor supporting disk, memory, and file hex editing, as well as a secure file deletion tool (called a “file shredder” by HxD). HxD’s webpage states the app works on every Windows OS ...

Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web. The web ...