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.