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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Overview for PM Repair ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- This utility is targetted directly for technical support and computer
- programmers.
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- This utility offers you the ability to:
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- 1. Create and initialise new files
- 2. Initialise an area of a file
- 3. Insert new areas into a file
- 4. Remove unwanted areas from a file
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- I hope you find it as useful as I have.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Fields ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- File name Enter the name of the file you want to create or modify. Only FAT
- type filenames are currently supported. I will introduce HPFS file
- handling shortly.
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- The file name entered may be qualified with a path name if required.
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- Action Select the appropriate radio button for the operation`type you want.
- e.g. If you are creating a file, then select Create etc. It will
- default to the Create mode.
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- from Enter the starting point in the file you want to perform your
- operation on. Note that <offset 0> is used as the first byte.
- Therefore if you wanted to change byte 100 in the file, you would
- enter the number 99 as the from value and 99 as the end value. It
- will default to 0, being the beginning of the file.
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- to Select the ending point in the file you want to stop the operation.
- This defaults to 10k. If you select an end range which has a value
- greater then the total filesize, it will automatically override your
- end range and use the actual filesize as an ending point.
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- ASCII value Enter in the value in decimal notation of the ASCII character you
- want to use as an initialiser. This defaults to Hex 0x00 aka NULL.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Actions on files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- There are 4 actions that may be performed on a file:
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- 1. Create
- 2. Initialise
- 3. Insert
- 4. Remove
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- Create This option allows you to create a file. The 'from' position will
- always be set to 0 (BOF)!regardless of what you enter into the
- 'from' range. The 'to' position is used to generate the file size
- i.e. if you enter 10000 then the file will be created with 10,000
- bytes in it. Use the 'ASCII Value' option to select the initial
- state of the data in the file.
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- Initialise The initialise option will allow you to overwrite an area of the
- file with the value that you enter in the 'ASCII Values' field. The
- 'from' - 'to' range is used then to initialise the area of the file
- you wanted.
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- Insert This option allows you to add some data mid-way through a file (or
- at the beginning or end for that matter). The data added will be the
- value of the 'ASCII Value'. This option is the opposite of the
- 'Remove' option.
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- Remove This facility is used to`strip out an area of the file i.e. the area
- prescribed by you will be totally removed from the file, leaving no
- 'holes'. This option is the opposite of the 'Insert' option.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Buttons ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- There are 5 buttons located at the bottom of the Dialogbox.
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- Apply This starts the operation you have selected. It will of course
- verify the details you should have already entered for being
- correct. Any suspicious conditions detected found will be shown to
- you, with the option to backout and quit if you want to.
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- Defaults If you have 'botched' up the request and want to start from scratch,
- select this button. It will clear the fields and reset the
- selections their default values.
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- Help You have selected that button to get this help.
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- About This button will pop-up a Dialog box giving details about myself and
- the current version of the program you are using.
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- Exit This button will quit the program and return you back to your
- Application menu.
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