SafeHex v.1.0.a1 Documentation
8 December1996
Copyright 1996 digital innovations limited
All rights reserved

-- What is SafeHex?
SafeHex is a hex viewer/editor application for the BeBox.

-- What is a BeBox
BeBox is a cool new dual processor PowerPC machine. If you wish to
know more about it, check out http://www.be.com.


-- Installing SafeHex.
To install SafeHex, copy the SafeHex10a1.tar.gz archive to your BeBox.
Open a terminal window and go to the location where you copied the
archive to. Type in the following:

gzip -dvc SafeHex10a1.tar.gz > SafeHex10a1.tar
tar xfv SafeHex10a1.tar
setfile SafeHex v.1.0.a1

-- Using SafeHex
When you launch SafeHex, you will get a standard file open dialog
to open a file for editing. You may also drag and drop items onto
the SafeHex icon in the Browser.

SafeHex gives you a 512 bytes per screen dump of the file.

-- WARNING
This is a alpha product. There are a lot of things missing. I
chose to release it in the state it is in because it is quite
usable. Be sure to note the following:

- Always work on a copy of a file and not the original
- When a file is modified, SafeHex will prompt you to
save it when you close the document window. Saving will
move the old file to the Trash and create a new one in
its place. (There is no "Save as..." facility as of yet)
- Selecting large (> 512 bytes) chunks of data has not
yet been implemented so modify within a single screen dump only.
- cut, copy, paste and *** UNDO *** has not yet been implemented.
- SafeHex will be slow on HUGE files (> 5 megs)

-- Costs and Legal Stuff
This version SafeHex is freeware. This means it can be freely
distributed so long as:

1) The end user does not have to pay for it.
2) This documentation is included with the archive.
3) SafeHex and this documentation are not modified in any way.

The SafeHex application and this documentation are written by
Narayan Sainaney and fall under the copyrights of digital innovations
limited. Be and the BeBox are trademarks of Be Inc.


-- Contacting digital innovations limited
You can reach me at narayan@dil.com (or narayans@paradigm.bc.ca)
with your comments or bug reports.

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