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FastRep 1.0
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A HexEdit Companion Product
Copyright 1991
by Mike Graham
April 20th, 1991. 7:26
What IS FastRep?
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Basically, FastRep is just a little utility for those times when
you're just replacing single characters in a file. I admit it doesn't
happen too often, but the program was written for a specific purpose, so
I might as well toss it in with HexEdit... you might find some use for
it.
How to use FastRep
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FastRep is meant to be run from a batch file, so there are no pretty
pop-up windows or anything, but it works well. If you run FastRep with
no parameters, it will give you the lowdown on what parameters do what.
Basically, there are three parameters required: The byte to search
for, the byte to replace the search byte with, and the file to do the
replacing in.
i.e.
FASTREP 00 20 c:\archive\junk.dat
will replace all of the null characters ($00) in C:\ARCHIVE\JUNK.DAT
with space characters ($20). Note that the numbers you type in are
IMPLIED HEX (i.e. even though you don't put a dollar sign, the numbers
are read as hexadecimal).
Impending Improvements
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This program was written to solve a specific problem. It has come to
my attention, however, that a minor modification could allow it to solve
many more problems. This modification would be expanding FastRep to
replace series of hex values and strings, rather than simply one byte.
Makes sense. I'll work on it.
Contacting the Author
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I can be reached by mail at the following address:
Michael A. Graham
Box 60036
U of A Postal Outlet
Edmonton, AB
Canada, T6G 2S4
Or I can be contacted on InterNet as
"michael_graham@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca".
(if that doesn't work, substitute "MGRM" for michael_graham.
I can be contacted on the McNamara Software BBS in Edmonton, Alberta,
(403)433-8375, as "Mike Graham" and am also available under the same name
at The Keep BBS, also in Edmonton, (403)437-1428. The latest version of
HexEdit and all of my other PD and Freeware programming efforts will
always be available on these two BBS's. Feel free to contact me if you
have suggestions for improvements, or (perish the thought!) a bug report.
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