[comp.sys.mac.apps] Fedit

jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (Quaestor) (11/09/90)

  On my hard dirve, I have a *really* old version of fedit.  I forget the
version, but the copyright is 1985!  Can anyone point me to a new version
of this program (in a FTP, please) or a similar program.
  What I am mainly looking for is a program that will allow me to look
at the data and resource forks as simple hex.
  Anyone, anyone?

  Mail or Post, I don't care.  Thanks in advance.

			John Gorman

c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr) (11/09/90)

I believe FEdit is no longer shareware/pd/freeware, I think it is now
commercial.  I don't know though...  does anyone know for sure?
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owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) (11/10/90)

My copy of FEdit Plus was created Sun, Jul 27, 1986 12:00 PM, and as far 
as I know, there have been no upgrades since. For the first year or two 
after I got it, I called the company once in awhile, to see if the 
promised upgrade was available yet (it cannot do many important operations 
on HFS disks "yet"). Then I gave up. It seems to be a dead product. Buy 
something else (if you want full HFS support, that is!).

Russell Owen
owen@raven.phys.washington.edu
Astronomy Dept. FM-20
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195

jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler) (11/12/90)

In article <10881@milton.u.washington.edu> owen@raven.phys.washington.edu (Russell Owen) writes:
>My copy of FEdit Plus was created Sun, Jul 27, 1986 12:00 PM, and as far 
>as I know, there have been no upgrades since. 
[...]
>buy something else (if you want full HFS support, that is!).
>Russell Owen

Norton Utilities contains a very good  disk editor. When you select to
'Explore' a volume it presents you with a folder tree. You can follow that
down to any file you wish to examine. It also has a menu in which you
can examine volume specific data, such as Boot Blocks, B-tree, etc. In
each of these the items are presented as labelled data, and selecting
a label gives you information about what the data in that field means.\

Excellent.

jim

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