hard drive forensics tool for linux

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Published on 2010-05-04T04:02:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 4:08 UTC
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I am looking for an application I used in 2001.

It was a curses application that displayed devices or files in hexadecimal format, and allowed searching through them and other functionality.

I can't find anything remotely like this, does anyone have an idea?

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