DOS ain't dead - Disk editor WDe version 0.99

Japheth

Germany (South),
09.07.2022, 09:07

Disk editor WDe version 0.99 (Announce)

Hello,

yes, I updated the old WDe from Ben Cadieux.

It's a disk editor, so I don't ask to "test it" - it's a dangerous tool in the hands of people who don't know what they are doing.

the main new features are:
- better navigation between data clusters, fat and directory entries.
- huge speedup for lengthy operations like find, save, fill
- support for exFAT file system
- "modernized" the user interface a bit ( don't worry, the "iconic" menu system is still there ).
- command line options

https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/WDe

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Zyzzle 10.07.2022, 03:21 @ Japheth	Disk editor WDe version 0.99 Post reply
	> Hello, > > yes, I updated the old WDe from Ben Cadieux. Thanks for your work, especially the support of exFAT volumes. Works very well for me. Speed increase is most welcomed. New life for an oldie but goodie program.

Zyzzle

10.07.2022, 08:21

@ Japheth

Disk editor WDe version 0.99

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> yes, I updated the old WDe from Ben Cadieux.
>
> It's a disk editor, so I don't ask to "test it" - it's a dangerous tool in
> the hands of people who don't know what they are doing.
I've found what I think is a bug. When wde is started with a file from the commandline, the file opens well, but when I press F2, then F1 to SAVE the selection to a file, it always truncates the number of allowable sectors to save by one. Example "WDE changes.txt" enables me to follow the file (20,826 bytes, 48 sectors on disk), but when I save the range of sectors, it only allows me to save the range of sectors from 1 to 47, which is one less than the file's actual size on disk (20,992 bytes), so the new file is always truncated by 1 sector (mod 512 bytes, in the example file changes.txt, it only saves the first 20,480 bytes). This behavior happens with files of all sizes, and on FAT16 / FAT32 / exFAT volumes. I think it's a bug.

Japheth

Germany (South),
10.07.2022, 19:54

@ Zyzzle

Disk editor WDe version 0.99

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> I've found what I think is a bug. When wde is started with a file from the
> commandline, the file opens well, but when I press F2, then F1 to SAVE the
> selection to a file, it always truncates the number of allowable sectors to
> save by one.

If the file size can be divided by 512 without remainder, all of the file's content should be accessible in WDe. In my tests it does so. Hey, WDe is a disk editor, not a file editor - the fact that it accepts a filename as cmdline argument shouldn't make you assume the latter. :-)

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glennmcc

North Jackson, Ohio (USA),
10.07.2022, 21:26

@ Japheth

Disk editor WDe version 0.99

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> > I've found what I think is a bug. When wde is started with a file from
> the
> > commandline, the file opens well, but when I press F2, then F1 to SAVE
> the
> > selection to a file, it always truncates the number of allowable sectors
> to
> > save by one.
>
> If the file size can be divided by 512 without remainder, all of the file's
> content should be accessible in WDe. In my tests it does so. Hey, WDe is a
> disk editor, not a file editor - the fact that it accepts a filename
> as cmdline argument shouldn't make you assume the latter. :-)

To eliminate confusion... might be a good idea to remove the capability
of accepting a filename as cmdline argument.

;-)

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Japheth

Germany (South),
11.07.2022, 06:09

@ glennmcc

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> To eliminate confusion... might be a good idea to remove the capability
> of accepting a filename as cmdline argument.

The ability to view the contents of an image file ( and extract files from it ) is almost a key feature of WDe - so I think I can tolerate that confusion. :-D

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RayeR

CZ,
27.07.2022, 16:20

@ glennmcc

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> To eliminate confusion... might be a good idea to remove the capability
> of accepting a filename as cmdline argument.

Why remove, rather it may check if file size is sector-aligned and display a warning if it's not. It may be useful edit some image file on FS.

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Zyzzle

11.07.2022, 00:00

@ Japheth

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> > I've found what I think is a bug. When wde is started with a file from
> the
> > commandline, the file opens well, but when I press F2, then F1 to SAVE
> the
> > selection to a file, it always truncates the number of allowable sectors
> to
> > save by one.
>
> If the file size can be divided by 512 without remainder, all of the file's
> content should be accessible in WDe. In my tests it does so. Hey, WDe is a
> disk editor, not a file editor - the fact that it accepts a filename
> as cmdline argument shouldn't make you assume the latter. :-)
Yes, of course. However, I find the possibility to follow files on disk a very, very useful "bonus" feature, which greatly extends the spirit of the project. Thanks for including it.