Stephen Warren wrote: > It sounds like you want read/write ability, but if all you want is > read-only, then "od" from the command-line will happily dump the bytes > in hex and much more. +1 od -tx1 somefile | less Vim ships with 'xxd' which is more of a classic hex dump program. (Why is it in vim? Don't answer. It's a rhetorical question.) xxd somefile | less Bob