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31 #31 : 012 CIA/INTRO --------------* THE CIA (CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ADVISORS) HARD DOCS CONTRIBUTED BY DIAMOND JIM APPLE MANOR (716)654-7663 * 24 TRICKY DICK is a disk editor that can be used on both normal and most protected disks. It will read in a sector directly from disk and list the sector's contents to screen or printer in Integer, Applesoft, assembler, hex and ASCII. Tricky Dick can patch and customize your disk, protect your software, and read and alter normal and most protected disks. THE LINGUIST dumps a track of raw nibbles directly from any disk - protected or not. It also decodes address data on the disk and translates raw disk nibbles into hex. The translated nibbles then can be listed by TRICKY DICK in BASIC, assembler and ASCII. This makes it possible to list the programs and textfiles from any disk, normal, damaged or locked. It can be used to look closer at a program, examine disk formatting and recover lost programs no matter how badly the disk is damaged. THE TRACER automatically searches normal and most protected disks sector by sector for any 1-6 strings you specify in ASCII or hex. It will also find the VTOC, catalog sectors, and track/sector lists on normal and protected disks. You can choose any or all of its 9 search options, and they will be carried out simultaneously, scanning an entire disk in 19-135 seconds. When it finds something that you're looking for it jumps back into TRICKY DICK and places a cursor on the item it's found. THE CODE BREAKER makes use of a special table in DOS 3.3 and 3.2 to decrypt the most popular "secret code" used to hide commercial programs from prying eyes. THE TRACKER shadows the disk arm, reporting its every move as DOS LOADS, SAVES, RENAMES, or does anything else to a disk. It leaves a list of every track and sector visited, and every read or write operation carried out during any disk access. THE TRACKER can be used to find out exactly where a disk is crashing, make a permanent record of your files, and learn more about how DOS works. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CIA MODULES TRICKY DICK controls the operations of the other CIA utilities. First, BRUN TRICKY DICK. Then when you need to call upon one of the other utilities, you BLOAD it. A single keystroke transfers control to the utility you BLOAD and enables it to carry out its work. During certain operations, the module will pass data to TRICKY DICK for special processing. For example, when the TRACER finds a string it's looking for, it jumps back to TRICKY DICK, displays the string, and places TRICKY DICK'S cursor on the first character. TRICKY DICK is in charge and you can edit the string and/or other data in the sector where it resides. The only exception to this system is THE TRACKER which works alone. [-2] #36 Library #8 <1-58/Last-31> <?/Q/A/+/-/P> #: