Richard thinks that the process of analyzing disk formats can be
automated.
Allison and I say that it isn't quite that simple, and that possession of
a program is not enough to EASILY analyze what data structures the program
uses.
I am NOT saying that it is impossible - it is definitely possible. But I
am saying that the task of automating it would be significant. I have
manually analyzed quite a few more formats than most people have:
http://www.xenosoft.com/fmts.html
I would LOVE to be proven wrong, and have somebody create an automatic
format analysis that works. Therefore, Dick, since you have some time
while you reboot [sorry, couldn't resist], may I suggest that you go ahead
and write the code to do it, and prove us wrong. It would be an
impressive accomplishment, worthy of admiration.
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Fred Cisin cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
Received on Fri Oct 06 2000 - 23:15:23 BST