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- From: root@tardis.wizvax.net (Tony Postmayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Q: Disc sector editor with search function?
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 05:07:27 GMT
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- On Sun, 11 Feb 1996 23:22:38 +0100, drysdall@waikato.ac.nz (Richard
- Drysdall) wrote:
-
- >Hi.
- >
- >Can anyone tell me if there is a sector editor available which will let me
- >search for a sequence of bytes on a disc?
- >We've got FastHackem (version 4.1A?), but it's Disc Sector Editor doen't
- >seem to have this function.
- >
- There are some that do that, but they don't really do it correctly.
- The ones I've seen simply read in a sector and search that sector.
- That's all well and good if the search string happens to be completely
- within a sector, but what if it spans two sectors?
-
- Some years back I programmed the mother of all sector editors. It
- runs on a C64 and 1541 drive, and it has functions you never heard of
- anywhere else. It's never been released, and at this stage of the
- game probably never will be (since who uses 1541 drives anymore?)
- It's also very user-unfriendly, with no online help and dozens of
- cryptic single-key commands.
-
- I might be persuaded to find the sources to the search function if
- some ML programmer wanted to write a better disk searcher.
-
- Tony -
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