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Best Free Binary File Text Extractor

 
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Introduction
When dealing with unknown .exe, .dll or other binary files, it's often helpful to view any text information contained in the file. This may help you to identify the program itself, as well as other information, such as the copyright date, application used to create the file, menu items and error messages.
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Peek is a tiny utility that allows you to do this by creating a right-click context menu item. Usage couldn't be simpler: Just right-click a binary file and select "Peek". The program can handle Unicode strings and can provide text string offsets. A little gem.
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Runs as a stand-alone program on a user's computer
Extremely small size
Program not being developed at present. Most versions of Windows are not officially supported
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11.2 KB
Unrestricted freeware
Windows 95, NT4 officially supported. May work with other versions of Windows

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by Bob Thomson (not verified) on 11. September 2010 - 17:37  (57660)

I have been using Peek with Windows XP for years and it works fine.

by Anonymous on 2. June 2008 - 11:18  (1500)

Strings (Mark Russinovich, now @ M$) does this from the console.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897439.aspx

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