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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
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Subject: Re: Fedit chokes on RLL hard disk (?)
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 03:55:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 03:55:25 1987
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Keywords: Fedit, RLL, hard disk

In article <2831@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Julian Vrieslander) writes:
>I just tried to use Fedit to look at some files on our DataFrame 150i hard
>disk.  All I got was some dialog boxes informing me that the nodes and
>files were unintelligible.
>
>Is this because the 150i uses RLL encoding?  If so, does anyone know if
>there is a version of Fedit, or an equivalent program that can read and
>edit RLL disks?  The version of Fedit that I have is 1.0.4.

No, it's not anything to do with the encoding.  Fedit 1.0.4 has a bug
which prevents it from working on hard disks larger than 20 Mbytes.
The symptoms are exactly as you describe.

The bug was fixed in version 1.0.7, which I didn't bother getting
because when I discovered the bug (six months ago), version 2 was
going to be out any day now.

Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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