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Re: File Examiner 1.1

• Posted by Agent Spectre <Email at SPECTRESOFTWARE.CO.UK> Mar 20, 2000
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-----Original Message-----
From: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>;
kingpete at KINGPETE.F9.CO.UK <kingpete at KINGPETE.F9.CO.UK>
Cc: Everett Williams <rett at GVTC.COM>
Date: Sunday, March 19, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: 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.

Im not sure why either! Problem with the list serve?

>
>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.

Thanks for your comments. File Examiner was intended as just that... but I
guess it would be nice to have better file edit functions and a wider
window. To implement this I am thinking of redesigning the interface
completely, give me a couple of days.

>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.

Well Im grateful for your suggestions and will be improving the File
Examiner shortly.
Pete King.