VCHE v1.6 (Virtual Console Hex Editor) is a hex editor which lets you see all 256 characters as found in video ROM, even control and extended ASCII like the old DOS programs. It use the /dev/vcsa* devices to do all the screen I/O. It also contains an ncurses and an xterm version.
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