Hex Dump of File For Windows (XD)

I often need to decode contents of various file formats as my line of work. It is often good to be able to read both the HEX and ASCII content of the file. I used to work on Digital Equipment line of products and they had a very nice DUMP format like this,

0: 4D 5A 90 00 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 | MZ.......... ..
10: B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ╕.......@.......
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | ................
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 E0 00 00 00 | ............α...
40: 0E 1F BA 0E 00 B4 09 CD 21 B8 01 4C CD 21 54 68 | ..║..┤.═!╕.L═!Th
50: 69 73 20 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 20 63 61 6E 6E 6F | is program canno

But, on Windows I had to some hunting around to find a program that did this. I actually wrote one a long time ago and posted on the web, but the ISP crashed one day, and lost the file forever.

So here it is, there is a freeware called XD from who else, John Walker (of the AutoCAD fame) who now lives in Switzerland and runs The Fourmilab. http://www.fourmilab.ch/xd/

I suggest that you just take xd.exe and then drop that into Windows/System32 directory. This way you can call this handy utiliy anywhere (since there is a default path to that directory).

While you are at it, you should try Home Planet. It is really fantastic and free Home Planetarium software that runs on you Windows. Complete with Cookoo clock (since he lives in Switzerland). There are many other stuff there.