Free-as-in-beer binary file format inspector

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Published on 2010-03-15T21:06:07Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 15:01 UTC
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I am looking for a utility that gives me the ability to specify a binary file format and then interpret a file of bytes according to that format. (Something along the lines of the 010 Editor, but infinitely more cost-effective). Something that runs on Mac OS X would be preferred, but I'm interested to see what all is out there in general (while more of a hassle I'd be willing to run a tool on Windows if it were superior.)

What's your preference?

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