HEX File (.hex)

1. You can try to open Hex file in Notepad also. Start Notepad > File > Open > Select the file and open
2. If above doesn't work - You can download Hexedit from following location and use that

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hexedit/

(There are many other editors. Above one Sourceforge, a reliable source)

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How can I change the format of a file I downloaded. 

I would try  Power-Shell  Get-Content.   It has a bunch of options which could help with transformation which you will probably need to do.  Also, it gives you a way to just take a peek at a few lines instead of being forced to see the whole file before you're ready to deal with it.

Here's a way of getting a description of the syntax

Get-Content -? | out-string -Width 90

If it really is "Hex" though, I suspect you will have to pipe it to something else and unfortunately then instead of trying to find another cmdlet you may be faced with learning some more arcane syntax.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17229866/powershell-hex-to-string-conversion

(BING search for

    powershell fromhex totext

)

BTW I did not look very hard for a better hit.  That was just the first one which (more or less) demonstrated my point.  I'm disappointed it was not a "one-liner".

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle

Thank's