Re: File Examiner 1.1
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
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