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- HED FREQUENTLY** ASKED QUESTIONS
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- (** = at least one time asked, sometimes even two !)
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- Q. My OS/2 reports: "System cannot find the file EMX". What is this EMX
- file ?
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- A. Hed, as many other freeware & shareware programms, is compiled with the
- emx gnu c. You have to get the emx run time libraries in order to run
- hed. The emx run time libraries can be downloaded from any OS/2 ftp site
- as emxrt.zip in some place under /os2/unix/emx*.
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- Q. Why is X so slow under Windows ? Why X feature doesn't work in the
- Windows version ?
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- A. There are two thinks to blame ...
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- 1) Windows. The Console API hed uses is too slow in 95 and extremely
- slow in NT.
- 2) Visual C++. Mallocs and frees are so slow it can take seconds to
- free all members of a medium sized linked list.
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- Q. Hed refuses to parse the fixup table of some file. I'm sure this is a
- binary file. Why will hed not understand it ?
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- A. Hed currently supports only LX (linear executables). Some old 16bit
- OS/2 programs come with the outdated NE file format. Hed can parse 16bit
- programs but they must be LX binaries. If you are sure the binary is a
- valid LX and hed does not understand it please contact the author.
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- Q. Fixups seem to be ok, but the code they point to doesn't make any sence.
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- A. This is most propably a compressed file. Try uncompressing it first.
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- Q. What is the meaning of all those FFFFFFFF offsets in the fixup tables ?
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- A. Fixups that point to the current module do not always corespond to some
- actual data in the binary file. For example, an internal reference to an
- iterated or a compressed page does not have some offset in the file
- associated with it. FFFFFFFF offsets denote this kind of unresolved
- internal references.
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- Q. Can by any change this particular feature I need be included in hed ?
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- A. Of course it can. Just e-mail the author and ask for it. Nearly half of
- hed features were implemented as a result of some user requesting them. Hed
- would have never been what it is without your support.
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- Q. How can I register hed ?
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- A. E-mail the author. Tell him how much you like hed. Consider your self
- registered.
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- Q. Is hed a hacking tool disquised as a hex editor ?
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- A. Yes.
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