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"Paul" <pault@HiWAAY.net> writes:

> Someone suggested that Emacs has a hex edit mode but I can't seem to find
> it?
>

interactively:

M-x hexl-mode

or, to associate it to files with, say,  .hex extension:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.hex\\'" . hexl-mode))

in your .emacs.

hth,
jao
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