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Disk editor WDe version 0.99 (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 10.07.2022, 08:21

> 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.

Complete thread:

• Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Japheth, 09.07.2022, 09:07 (Announce)
  • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Zyzzle, 10.07.2022, 03:21
  • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Zyzzle, 10.07.2022, 08:21
    • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Japheth, 10.07.2022, 19:54
      • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - glennmcc, 10.07.2022, 21:26
        • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Japheth, 11.07.2022, 06:09
        • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - RayeR, 27.07.2022, 16:20
      • Disk editor WDe version 0.99 - Zyzzle, 11.07.2022, 00:00