Re: File Examiner 1.1
- Posted by Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM> Mar 19, 2000
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Well, this is the third time that I have tried to answer your post of your new Examiner code, and my machine has hung up twice. Don't know the cause yet, but just for safety, I am not quoting you. Some stray character somewhere causing trouble...speaking of hex. The new version looks great and all works that didn't work before. Got past the false file end and was able to look at files greater than 32k, though it ain't speedy going from seg to seg. Now we get to the nitty gritty of updating files in the raw. The reason I wanted a wider view was so that I could see ASCII strings in the binary. Also, many times when I have update instructions, they go like this. "Go to a particular hex offset in the file and then go to the hex address you find at that offset." I can accomplish that with your program, but I will need a pencil and some time. We need the location and the content in hex as well as decimal and ASCII, both for information and for entry. There is plenty of room for more boxes on your current setup. I used to have to wade through 10-20 hex and EBCDIC(read ASCII for our purposes) dumps every morning on the way into my office and many of them were more than a half box of 11x14 paper. They used a format somewhat like the following...adjusted for narrower format. Address ....2 hex dwords.... ...ASCII... 00F8BCD0 30313233 34353637 0123 4567 00F8BCD8 00410042 43004445 .A.B C.DE where the dots represented non-printing hex combinations. Needless to say, the decimal address in a situation like this is basically irrelevant. Now, as my cursor moves across one of these sets, a highlight should move across the other set. The cursor should be able to tab between the sets. As the cursor moves, the decimal can appear in one of your windows. It would even work if multiple bytes could be updated at once by entering decimal triplets delimited by a space... 048 049 , but I would really want to be able to make ASCII and especially hex changes also. You might even put in a binary window for those who need to change bits in a map. Anyway, just my suggestions. It looks a lot better and is functional. Everett L.(Rett) Williams rett at gvtc.com