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- DFM 2 (Double-FileMaster 2)
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- 13 Feb 1996
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- - Copyright & distribution notices -
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- DoubleFileMaster 2 (DFM2) is Copyrighted material.
- DFM2 is copyrighted by Mirko Tocchella and is available as Freeware.
- DFM2 is freely distributable provided the following rules are respected:
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- 1. No charge except reasonable media costs may be levied.
- 2. The program and documentation may not be modified in any way.
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- I am in no way liable for damages, incidental or consequential, arising
- from the use or misuse of DoubleFileMaster 2, or for any claim by any
- other party. Use this program at your own risk.
- No warranty is given either expressed or implied.
- Copyright and distribution terms are subject to change without notice.
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- - What it is -
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- DFM is a filedisplayer like ZAP or other software (especially the mentioned
- the good old Filemaster). It can display any file in HEX and ASCII BUT
- it can not only display one file, it can display two files at the same time
- which makes possible to compare files (like CMP) and edit both files.
- This is a beta-version of DFM. There may still be a lot of bugs in it.
- But I think (and tested it) upto now it is free from enforcerhits.
- It is a beta-release - use it at your own risk !
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- - How to use -
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- Lets think you are playing a nice game where you are able to save.
- You may have 100 Credit, so save the game, play until you have 50 Credit
- (or anything beside 100) and save again.
- Now load DFM2. Load save-game01 as file 1 and save-game02 as file 2.
- Both files will be displayed on the screen.
- Now you can search for differences (100/50) and DFM2 should find it.
- Now you can edit one file to 1000 Credits and save the file as save-game03.
- Thats all. Start your game again and load savegame3 and you should have 1000
- Credits.
- This is only one example what you could do with this software.
- (It might be possible to load two files with different serial numbers and
- find out what the serial number is, and even change it. BUT YOU SHOULD NOT
- DO THINGS LIKE THAT )
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- - The Buttons -
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- Load file 1 / Load file 2 - Use this to load a file into memory
- Save file 1 / Save file 2 - Use this to save the files back to disk
- Search - There you can enter a search string, a decimal or hexadecimal
- number to search for in the file. Searching will only be done in
- the file selected with the button (Both/Left/Right)
- Diffs - Will search for the next / previous difference in the two files
- About - Will show a little about-text
- Book - This funktion is not implented yet
- Quit - Guess what this will do ?
- Prefs - Prefs is disabled in this version ( I have not implented it yet)
- Both|Left|Right - will give you the possiblity to select wich file can be
- edited and searched
- ? - Here you can enter a number. Cursor will jump to that position
- T - Cursor-jump to position 00
- B - First click will jump to end of file 2
- Second click will jump to end of file 1
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- Click into the hex display and you can edit the hex.
- Click into the ascii display and you can edit the ascii.
- You can only edit the file wich was selected by the both|left|right-Button
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- - The future -
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- Just try out this version. I am still coding on this proggy and a better
- Version will come soon. Waiting to be implented in the next version:
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- - faster routines (searching/display etc.)
- - localized (german language)
- - Book-funktion (with this funktion you can make books for certain files
- so you can give certain positions names)
- - read not only files but also tracks from any device
- - a good documentation (english & german)
- (I am sorry for this bad doc, but I had no time and my english is not
- as good anymore compared to the times when I was going to shool)
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- and whatever you suggest me ....
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- So please send me a mail if you
- - like this proggy
- - do not like this proggy
- - have any suggestions
- - have bugreports
- - want to tell me that you are alive.
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- My adress is:
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- Mirko Tocchella
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- Fido: 2:2476/711.0
- AmigaNet: 2:173/305.0
- E-mail: tocchell@mibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
- Fax: +49 7821 985 792
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- or you can leave me a messy in my home-bbs
- THE OPTIMUM +49 7825 2062 (Germany)
- my username is NAPALM
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