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- The LOOK12 Disk Utility is distributed as Shareware.
- Use it, copy it, and exchange it freely for non-commercial
- purposes. If you have enjoyed using it please send $10 to
- help support future developments and give encouragement to:
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- G. B. GRUENKE
- 7907 HUDSON ST.
- VANCOUVER, B. C.
- V6P 4L9
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- Copyright (C) 1987 G. B. Gruenke
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- Version 1.07
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- This utility will allow users of IBM-AT and compatables
- to examine and edit any sector on their floppy drives.
- There are many other utilities that do this very thing
- but I could not find any that worked on the 1.2 megabyte
- high density drives. This utility was written specificly
- for the 80 track high density drive. It will, however,
- work for the standard 360K floppy with minor
- inconveniences.
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- The main menu presents you with a choice of Display,
- Modify, or Quit. If you choose either Display or Modify
- you will be prompted for the Drive, Head, Track, and
- Sector you wish to work with. In the display mode the
- left side of the screen will show any valid ascii
- characters and the right side of the screen will show the
- hexidecimal values of each byte for that sector. You may
- then page to either the next sector or the previous
- sector with the up and down arrows. This is where the
- minor inconvenience with 360K drives appears. If you try
- to step past Track 39 or Sector 9 you will get a read
- error and go back to the main menu. In the modify mode
- the screen only displays the hexidecimal values and a
- menu at the bottom of the screen presents you with a
- choice of Change a byte, Write sector to disk, or Quit.
- If you select Change you will be prompted for the
- relative position and the new value of the byte to be
- changed. This is only changed on the screen and you may
- continue to change bytes or quit. The disk is only
- altered when you select Write, at that time the sector AS
- DISPLAYED ON SCREEN is written to the disk. If you have
- any questions I can be contacted on Compuserve 71016,1245
- Thats all, enjoy!
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- Version 2.01
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- A new command has been added to the main menu and the
- modify mode has been made much easier to use. The new
- command is Reset high bit display. This needs some
- explanation. A few programs or systems use a 7 bit ascii
- code and always set the 8th or high bit to a one. The reset
- command just masks off the high bit of each byte on the
- ascii display mode, it does not change the hex value or
- anything on the disk. The modify command is much easier
- to use. Now instead of keying in the relative address of
- the byte to change, just use the arrow keys to position
- the cursor and key in the new value. Both upper and lower
- case are accepted.
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