Programs - Exhumator: a program to "drive the exhumation."

<b>Programs</b> - Exhumator: a program to

           Ver_1.01 +



 - - =--- ---= CONTENTS - -


          1. Introduction.

    2. Working with the program.

         3. Exhume FAQ.

           4. Bugzzz.

          5. Credits.



  - - =--- ---= INTRODUCTION - -


  We are glad to present
the attention of our new development in
of disk utilities for the ZX
SPECTRUM. This program
product is designed to "drive the exhumation." Eksgumator - a 
person who is engaged in opening graves, respectively, and our 
program will do the same, only focuses not on

graves, and on disks. Imagine a situation where you completely 
lose the zero track on the drive where he kept the only copy of 
your development (Music, graphics and text on assembly 
language, etc.). Well if you have a copy of it on XXX

track, and if not, eksgumator
in your hands and a song bout.


- ---= WORK PROGRAMME =-- -


  The program used is familiar to all turnout interface. After 
loading appears headed window with a picture of dinosaur, 
jumping on floppy disk. Right in the window are three buttons: 
START, TYPES, ABOUT.


START - start the exhumation.
ABOUT - even in Africa ABOUT!
TYPES - the choice of types to be searched.

When you click TYPES appears
window with a list of file types
who can look at this
moment Exhumer. All types are divided into three categories:

 - "Endless" - files which at the moment we do not
learned to determine the size (to find the end). These files
assigned to the maximum possible size (255 sectors),
Search for a file being
next after the found
start sector (marked with
issue).

 - Critical - the types of files that can be found wrong in 
more than 30% of cases. (For example, instead of a text

files are often sprites
screens or even hell knows
that). Because of this, can Exhumer
not detect the "real" files
located in the wrong
exhumed areas (marked with an exclamation mark).

- Ordinary - all others

Common and critical files
after exhumation want to copy to a blank disk and use, but with 
the "infinite" will have to suffer: Files

PSC_1.xx and ProTracker_3.x be loaded into the editor,
then back to unload, then y
They will be the right length. Files from the Laser Compact 
likely have to unpack and dispatch

with handles and debugger, and only
then do with them whatever you want (you can pack again
or leave as is).

 The right of each type is one of two icons:


  [] - Indicates that the files
this type of searches will not.


  [¯] - this file type will be
searches.


  Clicking on any of the types will change the icon to the 
opposite. ENTER + SPACE (mouse button1 + button2) - modified

Your all types besides
where an arrow. Option
Selective search is introduced to
convenience and speed of searching individual types, and also 
recommended for a single search "Critical" types.



  When you press "START" to begin
exhumation. First, check for disk directory, and if the 
aforesaid present you immediately aware of this

and the program will ask questions about the possibility of 
continuing. If the disc have already been exhumed, but not to

end (not enough space in the directory or was pressed BREAK) 
then you will be invited to the menu: to continue the 
exhumation from a place where it was finished, or start anew. 


  During the process of exhumation
displays a window that shows the indicator of completion in the 
form of increasing strips. If it found any file in the window 
to appear poradkovy number found file and its type. Well, that

you are not bored to wait for the completion of the exhumation, 
in the same window, playing a small Animation: loop climbs a 
rotating disk (such feature I saw on the PC in Norton

Utilities, and she liked me terribly).

Exhumation process zakanchivaetya
in one of the three cases:

 - Check the whole disk

 - Overflow occurred catalog (ie on disk files more than 128 - 
is it possible to working disks, which always something to 
change, rewrite, condense ...) 

 - Pressing BREAK.


  As already mentioned above,
the latter two cases can be
proceed with the exhumation site
stop. To determine this
situation in the eighth sector created directory contains the 
following data: 

 Offset. length value

+ # 80 # 08 inscription "CONTINUE"

+ # 88 # 01 sector number for

              subsequent formation
              processing.

+ # 89 # 01 number track for

              subsequent formation
              processing.

+ # 8A # 02 address in the box for

              search.

              (# C000 .. # ff00)

+ # 8C # 01 sector is located.

              on the drive current

              block.

+ # 8D # 01 track is located. on

              drive current

              block.

+ # 8E # 01 count of untreated
              culated blocks.


  Ca.: In the process of exhumation of
disc loaded blocks long
# 40 sectors in the memory address
# C000, and the search is in memory.
Data on displacements # 8C, # 8D, # 8E
Need to determine the position
disk block in which it is necessary
seek, and how many units still have proeksgumirovat. Data
by deposed. # 88, # 89 needed to enter data on the beginning of 
the file directory. The number of displaced. # 8A is needed for 
the internal procedures of the search. 


  After the end of exhumation of you
will be notified how many files
found and how many sectors they
occupied ("infinite" files
: Number of sectors not included)
and a request will be made to preserve or not the resulting 
directory. 


  In contrast to the version 0.07 here
each type of file is assigned an appropriate name (in version 
0.07, all files look like NONAME??. C).



  Disk errors like intercepted, but possibly before
exhumation have to restore (or format)
bad sections.



 - - - ---= BUGZZZ =--- - - -

1. As already stated, text files are not always
true, and the texts of less than
one sector in general are not.

2. If simultaneously pressing
"START" push BREAK - everything hangs.

3.1. Not always correct analysis is the 0-th track on the 
availability of the catalog. 

3.2. If you insert an unformatted disk, it will be reviewed 
before blueing. 



- - - ---= CREDITS =--- - - -

Code, Gfx ......... Time Keeper
Test, Support ........ Organism
Cash support ............. Nuts


(C) 09.03.00


PS: unaccountable way to the masses
leaked version 1.01, which, unfortunately, does not work. In
Attached is version
1.1 + - fully workable. Also in the new version adds a new 
type: SpWrite Maker v4.