davison@bnl.UUCP (Dan Davison) (02/25/85)
A friend recently lost a file containing 2000 characters...of DNA sequence. (i.e. AGCTAGGTATG). If it was text this wouldn't have come up, but this now becomes important information. When he lost the file (I don't know how; it was his first hour using a PC) I went looking with debug in a limited sort of way to find the text but couldn't. I didn't know about debug's S command at the time. So, does edlin put its working buffer in a predictable location, like x bytes below the top of memory or x bytes offset from where it was loaded itself? Any assistance would be appreciated because the microbiology department has a lot of PCs and a lot of very inexperienced people using them. If I could come up with a cookbook recipe for saving such files it would save much grief. Please mail responses to me since I don't alway have the time to read this newsgroup. TIA, dan davison davison@bnl.arpa, ...decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!davison