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- Documentaion for YASE (Yet Another Sector Editor)
-
- Format:
- yase [d:]
-
- where d: is the drive to be read.
-
- Ok, I know you're wondering, "oh god, not another sector. Why, I
- can just use Norton." Well, yes, you could, but Norton Utilities (c)
- is not shareware, so you really can't distribute it, at least
- not legally. The same can be said for every other sector editor
- I've seen around. Thus I felt the need for a simple, shareware
- editor. Yes, I admit it, this program is a bit primative, or
- rather, very, but that's the exact reason I created it. Recently
- I needed to look at some disks that were formatted for UCSD p-system
- rather than DOS. First thing I did was to use Norton Utilities (c),
- or rather I tried to. Norton refused quite adamantly to read
- these disks. So, I created YASE to attempt to read these disks.
- Lo and behold it worked. I then spruced it up some to it's
- current form. Enjoy!
-
- Commands:
-
- ? Help screen
- d Switch drive. Prompts for new drive
- r Reread sector
- w Write sector
- +,- Increment and decrement current sector
- h,j,k,l Move cursor. h=left, j=down, k=up, l=right
- g Go to a sector. Prompts for new sector number
- e Edit byte under cursor. Prompts for new value, in hex
- <tab> Toggles eight bit stripping
- q Quit YASE
-
- Comments:
- YASE was written for a CGA system. It will only work on
- systems where text video memory is located at segment B800H, as it
- writes directly to video memory for speed. Also, the program
- currently does NOT check for disk length, so it's possible to
- attempt to read beyond the end of a disk, which results in an
- error. If anyone knows of a way to find out how many sectors are
- on a disk (perhaps through a BIOS call?), esp. in Turbo C (c), I
- would be very much appreciate the information. Also, the program
- is set up so that reads beyond 20 meg (about sector 47,000) are
- not allowed for the above reason. Any other bugs or comments,
- please mail to me.
-
- Donations:
- For a donation of $20 you will receive the most recent version
- of YASE, while for $35 you will receive source code as well as
- some other DFH shareware products.
-
- Send all bugs, comments, donations, etc to:
-
- Ari D Jordon
- 2227 Double Eagle Ct.
- Reston, VA 22091
-
- YASE is a copywrite of DFH Inc and Ari D Jordon
- Turbo C is a copywrite of Borland International Inc.
- Norton Utilities is a copywrite of Peter Norton
-