1. File Examiner
- Posted by Agent Spectre <Email at SPECTRESOFTWARE.CO.UK>
Mar 18, 2000
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Last edited Mar 19, 2000
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I have released a file viewer, called File Examiner, on my web site at =
www.spectresoftware.co.uk
It will allow you to view, and change, any file type. It works under =
windows. It is so useful I recommend everyone should have it! LOL
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2. Re: File Examiner
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:55:53 -0000, Agent Spectre <Email at
SPECTRESOFTWARE.CO.UK> wrote:
>I have released a file viewer, called File Examiner, on my web site at
>www.spectresoftware.co.uk
>It will allow you to view, and change, any file type. It works under windows.
>It is so useful I recommend everyone should have it! LOL
>
Good functionality, but a jolly pain to use. I wider display would be most
welcome...something along the lines of some of the older hex viewers,
showing 16 or 32 bytes across and then the text where viewable with
the cursor moving in both sets and tabbing between them. Also, it would
be most useful to be able to enter the desired location directly as a kind
of "goto"(no, let's not start that again). At least the version I downloaded
would only view 32k of any file larger than 32k.
It also stopped at the fifth byte of another file that I wanted to view.
Probably,
you are not getting past false EOF's in the binary.
It also crashed when I closed it after opening and looking at 32k of a file
greater than 40k.
Still in all, something that we haven't seen before. Is VEL still being
maintained by anybody? Has anybody obtained the Delphi source from
Gary?
I can think of lots of small ini and cfg type files that this could be useful
for.
Might want a little further testing though.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
3. Re: File Examiner
-----Original Message-----
From: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Saturday, March 18, 2000 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: File Examiner
>
>Good functionality, but a jolly pain to use. I wider display would be most
>welcome...something along the lines of some of the older hex viewers,
>showing 16 or 32 bytes across and then the text where viewable with
>the cursor moving in both sets and tabbing between them. Also, it would
>be most useful to be able to enter the desired location directly as a kind
>of "goto"(no, let's not start that again). At least the version I
downloaded
>would only view 32k of any file larger than 32k.
Oops I didnt really give it much testing did I? The 32k limit must be to do
with the LISTBOX control I have used... I would use memos or richeditors but
in VEL005 memos dont display carriage returns properly and you cant update
the text for a richeditor from inside your program without creating a
temporary file! Maybe I should use multiple listboxes, one per 32k? Or maybe
a redesign altogether?
As for direct location jumping I will put that in the next version!
>
>It also stopped at the fifth byte of another file that I wanted to view.
Probably,
>you are not getting past false EOF's in the binary.
>
Hmmm maybe, I am opening the file as a binary file I will look at this.
>It also crashed when I closed it after opening and looking at 32k of a file
>greater than 40k.
>
Must be the listbox again.
>Still in all, something that we haven't seen before. Is VEL still being
>maintained by anybody? Has anybody obtained the Delphi source from
>Gary?
>
I dont believe it is, which is a shame. VEL is a great development tool.
>I can think of lots of small ini and cfg type files that this could be
useful for.
>Might want a little further testing though.
>
Yes I guess I should test things more before I release them! LOL ;)
4. Re: File Examiner
I'm an NT user - when i launched the Power Desk app it asked me to download a
newer version of the windows common control DLL - is the DLL safe for NT??
5. Re: File Examiner
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:21:54 -0500, OtterDad <otter at FULL-MOON.COM> wrote:
>I'm an NT user - when i launched the Power Desk app it asked me to download a
>newer version of the windows common control DLL - is the DLL safe for NT??
You would have to look to Ontrack for a definitive answer, but my take
would be that it would be okay for workstation, but possibly chancy for
server...though even using NT server is chancy enough all by it's little
lonesome 
Somewhere it sticks in my mind that that particular DLL is
replaced by IE anyway. Could be ghosts wandering around in all that
free space up there, but that is what I remember.
Of course, one solution is backup your current DLL, your system, and
try it. and then restore if it gives you problems. Both pieces of code are
from MS, so it isn't likely to be virus...or any more a virus than any other
of their code.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
