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PSEDIT Binary File Editor USER'S GUIDE Copyright 1990, 1993 by Gary C. Crider and Parity Solutions TABLE OF CONTENTS: What is PSEDIT? .................................. 1.0 Getting started .................................. 2.0 The SET PSEDIT= Environment Variable ........... 2.1 The PSEDIT Command Line ........................ 2.2 Operational notes ................................ 3.0 The Keyboard and Display ......................... 4.0 Modifying Data ................................... 5.0 Filling a block of data ........................ 5.1 Deleting Data .................................... 6.0 Inserting Data ................................... 7.0 Using the clipboard (Cut, Paste, Copy) ........... 8.0 Locating Data .................................... 9.0 Go to a Position in the File ................... 9.1 Search for Data ................................ 9.2 Print the File ................................... 10.0 Save the File .................................... 11.0 Hex/Decimal Conversions and Calculations.......... 12.0 Exiting PSEDIT ................................... 13.0 Help ............................................. 14.0 A Useful Example - Modification of DOS 5's EDIT ................... 15.0 Installation ..................................... Appendix A Disclaimer ....................................... Appendix B Support .......................................... Appendix C Registration ..................................... Appendix D 1.0 What Is PSEDIT? One thing most of us learned early while working on our first PC was that EDLIN, while useful, stank (stunk?)... was malodorous as an editor of text files. Soon there were hundreds of full screen text editors available everywhere. Even Microsoft finally came around and included EDIT in DOS 5 to get us away from EDLIN. An early lesson that most who aspire to be power users learn is that not all changes we desire to make are in text files. Sooner or later we end up patching an executable program, database, or strange format file that text editors will not handle. Enter DEBUG. Just as EDLIN was a pain for editing text files, DEBUG is a pain for editing binary files. Strangely, few people have jumped out with binary editors and some of the few I have seen are not much better than DEBUG. PSEDIT is a very easy-to-use full screen editor for binary (or text) files. You simply type over the hex or ASCII data much as you would with any text editor. PSEDIT ensures that you enter hex characters (0-9 and A-F) while you are in hex entry mode. You will be able to see the hex and ASCII representations at all times whether you are editing in hex or ASCII. Using PSEDIT is so intuitive, I don't know why I'm writing this documen- tation or why you are reading it. Perhaps we both like to move cautiously. You see a full screen of data at all times, not just a few bytes. Paging through the file is as easy as hitting PgUp and PgDn, you don't have to enter hex displacements to get to the next page. I think you'll find, as we have at a Fortune 100 company (my day job), that PSEDIT becomes one of the handiest tools you have. You will use it much more than you now expect that you will. PSEDIT automatically detects and uses any available LIM 4.0 EMS expanded memory. This allows very large files to be edited. PSEDIT was formerly distributed under the name BEDIT. 2.0 Getting Started 2.1 The SET PSEDIT= Environment Variable PSEDIT uses an environment variable and command line switches to customize its environment. When PSEDIT is started with no switches and no environment variables, the following defaults apply: - EMS memory is used only if the file being edited is too large to load in conventional memory. - Color display is assumed. - International characters are not displayed in the ASCII portion of the edit screen. They can only be entered in hex and cannot be entered in an ASCII search string. - Video writes to the edit window are direct to video memory. CGA and MDA are unsupported, since it is assumed that video memory starts at B800:0000. Each of these can be changed. Since a user will normally want to use the same options over and over, the best way to change them is with the SET PSEDIT= command placed in AUTOEXEC.BAT. The following parameters are allowed in the SET PSEDIT= command: EMS - This forces the program to be edited to be loaded in expanded memory (LIM 4.0 EMS specification). The primary use for this parameter is for testing changes made to the PSEDIT program. Most users will want to use the default. EMS may be specified to allow additioinal file expansion with insertions. Since you are limited by the amount of conventional or EMS memory available, you may have access to more EMS memory than conventional memory. MONO - Displays the screens in monochrome. If you use a Monochrome Display Adapter instead of a VGA adapter, you will need to also specify BIOS. INTL - Allows display of the ASCII international character set (128- 168). It also allows international characters to be input while editing in ASCII mode and in ASCII search strings. GRPH - Allows display of the ASCII international character set (128- 168) plus graphics characters (169-254). BIOS - Uses the RAM BIOS interrupts to write to the edit window. This allows use of MDA, CGA and other non-VGA adapters. It may also be required for some extended text modes, depending on the video adapter being used. Specify BIOS if you expirience any problems with the display of data in the edit window. To specify combinations of these parameters, seperate them with commas. Example: SET PSEDIT=MONO,BIOS,INTL Place the set command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that it will always be present in your environment. If you encounter an "Out of environment space" message, you can increase you environment size by specifying a new amount in your CONFIG.SYS file with the following statement" SHELL=c:\command.com /P /E:nnnn The nnnn should be replaced with the new environment space required. 512 will give you quite a bit of space to work with. If you use Microsoft Windows 3.1, a value of 1024 or higher is recommended. For compatibility with BEDIT, the BEDIT= environment variable is also accepted. 2.2 The PSEDIT Command Line Format: PSEDIT [[path]filename] [/N] [/B] [/I] [/V /?] The filename is the file name of the file that you want to edit. PSEDIT does not make an automatic backup, so back it up if you think there could be problems. You will be given a chance to change the file name before you save it. The path is required if a file is specified and is not in the current directory. If no file name is specified, a pick list is displayed of all of the files in the current directory. To select a file, use the arrow keys to move the selection bar to the file you want, and press enter. /? Display command line help prompt. /N will cause PSEDIT to ignore the EMS parameter if it was specified in the SET PSEDIT= command. No attempt will be made to use EMS memory. /B reverses the effect of the MONO parameter of the SET PSEDIT= command. If you have specified MONO, /B forces color display. If you have not specified MONO, back and white (monochrome) display is forced. /I reverses the effect of the INTL parameter of the SET PSEDIT= command. If you have specified INTL, /I will cause international charcters to not be recognized. If you have not specified INTL, /I forces recog- nition of international characters. /G reverses the effect of the GRPH parameter of the SET PSEDIT= command. If you have specified GRPH, /G will cause international and graphics charcters to not be recognized. If you have not specified GRPH, /G forces recognition of international and graphics characters. /V reverses the effect of the BIOS parameter of the SET PSEDIT= command. If you have specified BIOS, /V will force direct video memory writes for the edit window. If you have not specified BIOS, /V will force BIOS writes. Brackets ([]) indicate optional parameters. Do not include the brackets in the command line. 3.0 Operational Notes It bears repeating at this point that PSEDIT DOES NOT MAKE AN AUTOMATIC BACKUP of the edited file. Since much of the usefulness of PSEDIT is to just view or print the contents of a binary file, I did not want PSEDIT cluttering up my directories with backup files. You can, however, change the name at SAVE time. If you intend to modify a file with PSEDIT, I highly recommend making a backup file first or saving with a different name for obvious reasons. Since PSEDIT will allow you to change any file in any way, it is obviously a very dangerous weapon in the hands of the unskilled or careless as well as a very powerful tool in the hands of the skilled and careful. Please be careful! PSEDIT reads the entire file into memory before any edits are performed. All changes are made only to the copy in memory until a SAVE is done. If you have LIM 4.0 compatible EMS memory, you are limited in editable file size to the amount of free expanded memory. If you have no expanded memory, or use the /N parameter, the file is loaded into conventional memory. Depending on your memory configuration, you should be able to load a file of 400-500 Kbytes without the use of expanded memory. If your available expanded memory is less than your available conventional memory, use the /N option to load larger files. Usually there is more expanded memory than conven- tional, so excluding the /N option allows larger files to load. PSEDIT must have at least one byte in its data buffer to function, therefore, if you load a file with a length of 0, or delete all bytes in a file, one byte will show up on the screen and its value will be x00. PSEDIT has three different display modes and three different ways of selecting the one you prefer. The normal default mode is to display U.S. English characters and punctuation. The second adds international characters and the third adds graphics characters. If you wish to change the default, use the SET command described in the "Getting Started" section. If you want to change the initial mode for a single execution of PSEDIT, use the command line switches /I or /G as described under "Getting Started." If you want to change the characters displayed after you have already loaded PSEDIT, use the ALT-I and ALT-G toggles as described below under "The Keyboard and Display." The reason the U.S. English letters and puctuation were selected as the default is first because most of the PSEDIT users are in the U.S., and second, because when most users refer to the ASCII portion, they are looking for a particular text string or phrase. Not displaying the graphics and international characters makes the phrase or word easier to spot. If you know exactly what you are looking for, use the search feature to locate it quickly. International users should not feel slighted, because you can easily change the default to display international characters. Unfortunately, you must display all international characters, not just the ones used in your language. 4.0 The Keyboard and Display The top line of the display shows the name, size, date and time of the file being edited. It also contains the status of EMS memory usage and shows whether coses-sensitivity is set on or off. There is also an area that will taggle between "HEX" and "ASCII" depending on which edit mode you are in. The bottom line contains a quick reference of function keys and their usage. Down the left side of the display is the offset from the start of the file to the first byte displayed on that line. The offset is in hex. HINT: The easy way to see where your cursor is currently located is to press ALT-D or ALT-H, rather than adding the horizontal offset to the offset on the left of the screen. The hex/decimal conversion windows will pop up with the current ursor location displayed in the operand field. ALT-D displays the offset in Decimal, ALT-H displays it in hex. There are two modes of editing in PSEDIT. When you first load a file, the screen appears with both hex data and its ASCII representation displayed in separate sections of the screen. The cursor is initially placed in the hex portion of the screen for editing in hex. The character (represented by two hex digits) at the cursor location appears red on color monitors. The same character on the ASCII (right) side will be light cyan. All other data characters are yellow. As the cursor moves, you will see the light cyan highlighting on the ASCII display move with the cursor and red letters of the hex display. Pressing TAB places the cursor in the ASCII portion and the display at the cursor becomes red. The corresponding position in the hex data becomes light cyan. TAB toggles the cursor back and forth between the two editing areas. The ASCII display does not display every displayable character, but only letters and numbers and the more common punctuation symbols that are common to most printers. All other characters appear as periods. You can only enter these characters on the ASCII side. To enter exotic characters you must use the hex representation on the hex side. If a blank appears on the ASCII display, it is because there is a true blank (hex 20) at that position. The following keys function as shown during editing: Page Down - Display the next page of data. Page Up - Display the previous page of data. Home - Position the cursor at the start of the file. End - Position the cursor at the end of the file. Down Arrow - Move the cursor down one line. Up Arrow - Move the cursor up one line. Right Arrow - Move the cursor right one byte. If at the end of a line, move to the first byte of next line. Left Arrow - Move the cursor left one byte. If at the start of a line, move to the last byte of the previous line. Enter - Same as right arrow. Tab - Swap the edit cursor between hex and ASCII modes. Back Tab - Clears the byte. You must then type something in the byte before the cursor can be moved. Insert - Insert one byte. Everything beyond this byte is shifted one position and a hex 00 byte is inserted at the cursor. Delete - Delete one byte at the cursor. Function keys: F1 - Display the help screen. F2 - Save any changes to the file on disk. F3 - Insert a specified number of bytes at cursor. F4 - Delete a specified number of bytes at cursor. F5 - Move the cursor to a specified address within the file. F6 - Print the file to LPT1:. It appears in basically the same format as displayed. F7 - Toggle case-sensitivity for ASCII string searches. F8 - Specify a search argument and locate the first occurrence of it in the file. F9 - Locate the next occurrence of the search argument. F10 - Display status of clipboard and blocked data. Alt keys: ALT-C - Hex/decimal calulator ALT-D - Decimal to hex conversion ALT-H - Hex to Decimal conversion ALT-X - Exit PSEDIT. ALT-V - Toggle between 25-line and 43/50 line display modes. ALT-F6 - Print an address range. ALT-I - Toggle displaying of international characters. ALT-G - Toggle displaying of international and graphics characters. Block keys: CTL-K B - Mark the start of a block to be deleted. CTL-K K - Mark the end of a block to be deleted. CTL-K H - Unmark a currently marked block. CTL-K F - Fill a block with a given value. Clipboard function keys: CTL-INS - Copy blocked data to clipboard. CTL-DEL - Cut bloacked data from the file and into the clipboard. SHFT-INS - Paste clipboard contents at current cusor location. The contents are inserted. Existing data is not overlaid. ESCAPE - Exit PSEDIT. 5.0 Modifying Data Modifying data is very simple, just type over it. Use the TAB key to select the hex or ASCII area. A MODE indicator on the top line will change to indicate whether you are in hex or ASCII edit mode. When typing in the hex area, only valid hex characters, 0-9 and A-F are allowed and upper case is forced. When entering data in the ASCII portion, only common printable characters are allowed and upper or lower case may be used. 5.1 Filling a block of data You may mark a block of data (see Deleting Data below) and then press CTL-K F. You will be prompted for a fill value (in HEX or ASCII depending on your edit mode) to overlay the contents of the blocked data. You may press ESCAPE at the prompt to abort the fill operation. Once you enter the value and press enter, the blocked data is filled with the value you specified. 6.0 Deleting Data First place the cursor on the first byte of the data that you want to delete. Pressing the DELETE key deletes one byte of data at this position. Press DELETE repeatedly to delete several bytes. If a large block needs to be deleted, press the F4 key and reply to the prompt with the number of bytes (up to 32,767) you want to delete starting with the byte at the cursor. There is also a facility to mark a block and then delete it. Press CTL-K B to mark the first byte of a block, then press CTL-K K to mark the last byte of a block. Then press DELETE or F4 to delete the block. You can unmark a block by pressing CTL-K H. You can also change the start or end of the block at any time before the block is deleted or unmarked. These keys conform to WordStar-type conventions used in many text editors and word processors today. You can mark and delete blocks up to 32,767 bytes long. PSEDIT cannot handle a file with no data. If you delete all bytes in the file, PSEDIT will display a file with one byte of x00. 7.0 Inserting Data PSEDIT, rather than using an insert mode, lets you insert bytes of binary zeros, hex 00, into the file. You can then type over the inserted bytes with the data that you require. Place the cursor at the byte where you want the data inserted. The data is inserted BEFORE the byte at the cursor. Pressing the INSERT key inserts one byte at a time. If a large block needs to be inserted, press F3 and specify the number of bytes you want inserted up to 32,767. Once the null bytes appear, type over them if necessary. In order to add bytes to the end of the file, press END to go to the last byte of the file then press the right arrow. Each press of the right arrow adds a byte to the file. To enter a large block at the end of the file, press the right arrow once, then press F3 and specify the number of bytes needed less one (since you already added one when you pressed the right arrow). You can insert data from the clipboard by placing the cursor where you want the inserted data to begin and pressing SHIFT-INSERT. If the clipboard is empty, nothing will happen. Otherwise, the new data will appear inserted at the cursor location and marked as a block. This is so that if you made a mistake and placed it improperly, you can just press DELETE to delete it, reposition your cursor and hit SHIFT-INSERT again to reinsert it. Press CTL-K H to unmark the block. The data remains in the clipboard, so it can be inserted at multiple locations. 8.0 Using the Clipboard (Cut, Paste, Copy) PSEDIT contains a 4k clipboard for use in cutting, pasting and copying marked blocks. The clipboard uses CUA keyboard conventions. First, mark a block of data (see Deleteing Data for instructions on marking blocks), then press CTRL-INSERT to copy the block to the clipboard. Press SHIFT-DELETE if you want to copy the block to the keyboard and delete it from its current position in the file (Cut). Once you have cut or copied data into the clipboard, you may paste (insert) it anywhere in the file by using SHIFT-INSERT. See Inserting Data for details on using the paste feature. If you try to cut or copy a block that is greater than 4k (4096 bytes), a message window will pop up and the current block marks must be adjusted to select only 4k or less at a time. 9.0 Locating Data There are basically three ways to move the cursor to an area you want to edit. First you can use Page Down and Page Up to visually look for that area you want. Primitive, but effective. Second, if you know the offset into the program of the area you want to modify, press F5 and type the offset in hex. The third method is to let the computer search for a known byte config- uration. 9.1 Go to a Position in the File An offset or displacement is measured from the start of the file. The first byte is offset 0, the second is 1, etc. When you press F5, you are prompted for an offset which you provide in hex. The cursor is then placed at that address and display is updated to show the data at the cursor. This method is often used in applying documented patches supplied by a software vendor. 9.2 Search for Data Pressing F8 pops up a dialogue box that requests entry of a search argument. After supplying this argument, the cursor is positioned to the first occurrence of that value in the file. If it is not found, the cursor will appear on the last byte of the file. If a first occurrence is found, pressing F9 searches for the next occurrence. If a second is found, pressing F9 again searches for the third occurrence, and so on. If the cursor is in the hex editing area, you will be prompted for up to 16 hex bytes of search argument (32 hex digits). When the cursor is in the ASCII editing area, you may enter up to 32 ASCII characters for a search argument. Admittedly the search arguments are small, but I have found that when editing binary files, you are generally not looking for long strings. Hex data is normally entered in sets of two hex digits (nibbles) since it takes two hex digits to represent one byte. If you enter an odd number of hex digits, a zero nibble is prepended to the argument. For example, if you enter 18A, the resulting two bytes that are located are 01 8A. No byte swapping is ever done to accommodate the PC's low-high storage scheme of integer data. So if you are looking for an integer value of 1000 (decimal), hex 3E8, which is stored as hex E8 03, the search argument you would provide is E803. If you don't have a clue what this means, you probably don't need to be concerned about using PSEDIT in this manner. The F7 key is used to enable or disable case-sensitive searches when in ASCII character mode. The current state is shown on the top line of the display. If ON, upper/lower case letters must match exactly. If OFF, upper and lower case letters are equivalent. The CASE mode has no effect on hex mode searches. 10.0 Print the File Printing the file is easy. You just press F6 and a window will pop up that tells you how many pages will be printed. You may abort at this time by pressing ESCAPE or replying N to the "Continue? (Y/N)" prompt. As pages are sent to the printer, the page number will be displayed. You may press any key to cancel printing at the end of the current page. The output is sent to standard print (PRN). The format is side-by-side hex/ASCII like that displayed on the screen with offset addresses (dis- placements) at the start of each line. 880 (hex 370) bytes are printed on each page. The pages are numbered and the file name, size, date and time appear at the beginning of each page. ALT-F6 allows you to supply a starting and ending address range to print. The actual pages printed will probably not start and end with the adresses you provided. Rather the pages (as if you had printed the entire file) that contain your starting address through your ending address will be the only pages printed. 11.0 Saving the File Prior to pressing F2 to save the file, all modifications are only done in memory. F2 writes the image in memory over the file that was originally loaded, and the changes become permanent. You may, however, change the file name at save time. A dialogue box will appear with the current file name. Accept it as is by pressing ENTER or modify it first. If the saved file name already exists you will be asked for verification before overwriting. 12.0 Hex/Decimal Conversions and Calculations Pressing ALT-D (Decimal-to-hex) pops up a window into which up to eight- digit decimal numbers can be entered. Pressing ENTER displays the results of converting this number to hexadecimal. Pressing ESC exits the window. Initially, the current cursor position is displayed in the operand field. Pressing ALT-H (Hex-to-Decimal) pops up a window into which up to eight- digit hexadecimal numbers can be entered. Pressing ENTER displays the results of converting this number to decimal. Pressing ESC exits the window. Initially, the current cursor position is displayed in the operand field. ALT-C pops up a hex/decimal calulator which will add, subtract, multiply or divide two hex, decimal or mixed values. The result is displayed in both\ hex and decimal. When entering the values to be calculated, preceed hex values with an X (i.e. X31A0) and preceed decimal values with a D (i.e. D4095). Enter a plus (+) or minus (-) sign in the operator field. Press CTRL-ENTER when ready to calulate (or ENTER at the operator field). Since it is designed primarily to help you figure diplacements within a program, the calculator operates on unsigned long (4-byte) interger values. Thus decimal points and negative numbers are not allowed. If you subtract a number from a smaller number, the result will be the 32-bit two's compliment of the negative result, usually a very high number. For instance, if you subtract 1 from 0, the result will be 4,294,967,295, the maximum for an unsigned long interger. If you compute a number with results higher than the above number, the results will be innacurate. Let's hope you are not trying to edit any 4 Gb files! When you first invoke the calculator, the hex diplacement of the current cursor location will be in the first operand. This facilitates calculating displacements forward or backward from the cursor. You can change the value to anything you like. HINT: The easy way to see where your cursor is currently located is to press ALT-D or ALT-H, rather than adding the horizontal offset to the offset on the left of the screen. The hex/decimal conversion windows will pop up with the current cursor location displayed in the operand field. ALT-D displays the offset in Decimal, ALT-H displays it in hex. 13.0 Exiting PSEDIT To quit PSEDIT, press ESC from the main edit screen. You will see a prompt: "Exit Editor? (Y/N)". Any response other than Y or y will return you to the point you were when you pressed ESC. A Y response returns you to DOS if PSEDIT was invoked with a file name and to the file name pick list if PSEDIT was invoked without a file name argument. To exit from the pick list screen to DOS, press ESC. Once you exit to DOS or the pick list, any unsaved modifications in the editor are lost. If you wish to exit PSEDIT without having to reply to the prompt, press ALT-X for a quick exit. Any modifications since the last save are lost. 14.0 Help Pressing F1 pops up a help screen describing the editing and function keys. Pressing ESCAPE (or any key when last page is displayed) removes the help window and returns you to the editor. Page Down and Page Up can be used to move between help pages. 15.0 A Useful Example - Modification of DOS 5's EDIT I prefer DOS 5's EDIT command by leaps and bounds over the EDLIN of previous DOSes, but there is one thing I especially don't like about it. When you select File/Open, it comes up with a default file list specification of *.TXT, like that is the only extension ever used for ASCII text files. I would prefer *.* and let me choose from all of my files. After reviewing all of the options, it appeared to me that there was no way to set this value to *.*. My next thought is that since there doesn't appear to be any type of configuration file for EDIT, the *.TXT string must be in the program, so I'll just pull out my trusty PSEDIT and zap it to *.*. Let's do it. Go to your directory where you keep DOS (usually C:\DOS). Type PSEDIT EDIT.COM. Since we know we are looking for an ASCII string of *.TXT, press TAB to swap the cursor to the ASCII area and press F8 to search. Enter *.TXT and press ENTER. You now find that your cursor is positioned on the last byte of the file. This means it didn't find the string we were looking for. Strange. But look! Right above our cursor are some messages that EDIT.COM displays. One of them reads, "Can not find file QBASIC.EXE." Oh yeah, I read somewhere that the EDIT editor with DOS 5 was a version of the QBASIC editor. Let's press ESCAPE, answer 'Y' and get back to the DOS prompt. Now let's enter PSEDIT QBASIC.EXE. Again let's go the ASCII area with TAB and search for *.TXT with F8. Bingo! We found it. In my copy of DOS 5.0's QBASIC.EXE, I am now at a displacement of hex 3BCCA into the program and the cursor is positioned on the * of string *.TXT. Hit the right arrow twice to position the cursor on the first T. Type an asterisk (*). The string now shows *.*XT and the cursor is on the X. Lets change the X and T to hex 00s, which in most languages is used to terminate a string. Since we can't enter a binary zero field in the ASCII area, press TAB to switch the cursor back to the hex area. Now type four 0s. As you can see you have now changed the XT characters from hex 54 58 (the hex representation of X and T) to hex 00 00. This is what we wanted to do, so now let's save the file by pressing F2. Since the file was not backed up beforehand, type in a new file name (QBASIC.1) just to make sure it works before we destroy the original. Exit to DOS by pressing ESCAPE and Y. Rename the original to QBASIC.BAK and QBASIC.1 to QBASIC.EXE. Now type EDIT and go to the File/Open screen. Lo and behold! It now reads *.* and all of the files in the current directory are displayed in the pick list. You can go delete QBASIC.BAK now. APPENDIX A Installation PSEDIT is distributed in a ZIP file called PSEDIT.ZIP. It contains the following files: PSEDIT.EXE The executable file for PSEDIT. PSEDIT.DOC The documentation file. PSEDIT.HST Modification descriptions for previous versions of PSEDIT. PSEDIT.Vnn Modification descriptions for current version nn. PRODUCTS.DOC A description of other Parity Solutions products available on CompuServe and ZiffNet. For best results, unzip the file into a directory on your PATH. If you don't use a directory in your path, you will have to designate the directory containing PSEDIT.EXE when executing the program. If you have a utility directory that is on your PATH, this is an excellent location for PSEDIT. An example installation would be: C: CD \UTIL COPY [path]PSEDIT.ZIP PKUNZIP PSEDIT DEL PSEDIT.ZIP The PKUNZIP program is by PKWARE, Inc. and is available in many CompuServe forums under the file name of PKZ110.EXE or PK204x.EXE. Since you are reading this doc file, you have obviously already managed to unzip the distribution file. If it is not currently in your path, simply copy all of the files to a directory in your path. Keep the PSEDIT.ZIP file anywhere you like, but give plenty of copies, as is, to your friends. If you register PSEDIT, you are not licensed to give your serial number to anybody without first removing the serialization from your copy. APPENDIX B Disclaimer BECAUSE OF THE DIVERSE NATURE OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT AND EXPERTISE OF USERS, PARITY SOLUTIONS AND GARY C. CRIDER MAKE NO WARRANTY ON THE PSEDIT PROGRAM WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISK OF DAMAGE TO DATA OR EQUIPMENT RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF THIS PROGRAM PRODUCT. THE USER MUST BE AWARE THAT USING PSEDIT TO MAKE ALTERATIONS TO PROGRAMS OR DATA CAN RENDER THAT PROGRAM OR DATA USELESS. USERS ARE ADVISED TO TEST MODIFICATIONS MADE WITH PSEDIT THOROUGHLY ON FILES FOR WHICH A BACKUP EXITS. ANY LIABILITY OF THE AUTHOR OR PARITY SOLUTIONS IS LIMITED TO REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF THE REGISTRATION FEE. APPENDIX C Support I have tried to test the program to the fullest, but I am limited as to systems and configurations with which to test. I have been programming for 18 years and the one thing I know for sure is that bug free programs are very few and far between. I can only promise to support the program to the best of my ability and provide fixes as expeditiously as possible. PSEDIT has been used at my home and work site extensively for several years and has proven to be a reliable tool. Anyone can report problems and suggest changes. Registered users get top priority in resolving their problems. There are three ways you can report problems. The preferred method is to contact me through CIS mail (not forum messages). My CIS ID is 71760,3413. You can also write me at: Gary C. Crider Parity Solutions 1105 Burgess Court Arlington, TX 76015 After 10/31/93 we will move to: 1903 Pavia Court Arlington, TX 76006 The last method is to phone (817) 467-7818. Since I am the sole technical support and the line is also used for my network consulting business, it is often hard to get through to me. Please call and leave a message between 7:30 am and 5:30 pm Central time. No matter which method you use, please give a brief description of your problem, the relaese number of your program, your registration serial number if you are registered, and your phone number. If I need more information, I will contact you as soon as I can. When I have a solution, I will contact you however you prefer. I work full time, have a consulting business to run in my spare time and write programs instead of sleeping. So please be a little patient with me. Program updates are available on CompuServe or can be requested from us for a $5 shipping and handling charge. Add $1 for international shipping outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico. A distribution disk of all Parity Solutions products will be sent to you. Specify disk size and format. APPENDIX D Registration I begin with an apology. I hate programs that in any way inhibit func- tionality or performance for the shareware version. But when it came down to feeding the family and paying the bills, I had a change of heart and inserted a pesky notice that pops up at the beginning and gets on your nerves. I chose this approach above that of limited functionality. The program's full capabilities are available for you to evaluate before you invest your hard- earned money. Registered users will receive a unique serial number and instructions on how to serialize the program. Serialization can be re-applied to updated versions and in no way hinders your use of the program. You can compress or decompress the program with no effect (LZEXE or PKLITE). I use Fabrice Bellard's LZEXE program on PSEDIT.EXE before distribution. As a registered user, you will be able to update without re-registration or additional fees. To register your copy, please send $24 US ($95 per file server on LANs) check or money order (sorry, no credit cards yet) to: Gary C. Crider Parity Solutions 1105 Burgess Court Arlington, TX 76015 After 10/31/93 use: 1903 Pavia Court Arlington, TX 76006 Purchase orders for amounts of $72 or more are accepted from U.S. or Canadian companies and institutions. Add $1 to total order for postage outside the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Or, you can register single-use licenses online quickly and easily in Compuserve. Simply GO SWREG and register ID #751. Your registration will be added to your Compuserve bill. International exchange was never easier, and you save the $1 postage charge. If you send your CIS ID or register via SWREG, your registration will be sent to you via CIS mail, along with instructions on how to serialize your copy of PSEDIT. This usually involves one day or less turnaround. Program diskettes are not ormally shipped. Normal distribution is via CompuServe. If you need a diskette, please see the instructions under Support above. You will receive a serial number and instructions for serializing your copy of the program. Each license gives you or your company a single use permit for PSEDIT. It is not restricted to a single machine as long as no two users can be simul- taneously using the program. As Borland says, "treat it like a book." As an example, if you register PSEDIT for your home computer, but during the day you use a portable or a computer at work, you may keep PSEDIT on both machines as long as no one is at home using it on your home computer. LAN licenses grant rights to all users of a file server. If inter- networking, a license must exist for each file server that contains a copy of PSEDIT.EXE. If two or more file servers exist on a single LAN strictly for mirroring data and fault-tolerance, these will be counted as a single file server for licensing purposes. If in doubt, contact me. We can work out an agreement. Site licensing is also available on a negotiated price basis. I guarantee it will be an economical alternative to buying licenses for each user. You may freely distribute the original PSEDIT.ZIP file in any way you see fit other than selling it. Users' groups and shareware distribution services may charge a reasonable fee for the medium and duplication costs. Bulletin boards may not charge additional fees for downloading this specific program, other than normal connect-time and/or membership charges. You are NOT licensed to give anyone your serial number unless you first remove all serialization from your computer. You may then no longer use that serial number. Only Parity Solutions has the authority to issue serial numbers. Modification of PSEDIT.EXE in any way is prohibited and unlawful. Licensees of Parity Solutions' BEDIT program may serialize PSEDIT by renaming BEDIT.SER to PSEDIT.SER. ============================================================================== ORDER FORM FOR PSEDIT Send checks payable to: Parity Solutions After 10/31/93, send to: 1105 Burgess Court 1903 Pavia Court Arlington, TX 76015 Arlington, TX 76006 BILLING ADDRESS: SHIP TO (If different): NAME: _____________________________ NAME: ___________________________ COMPANY: _____________________________ COMPANY: _____________________________ STREET: _____________________________ STREET: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ CITY/ST: _____________________________ CITY/ST: _____________________________ ZIP/POSTAL CODE: _____________________ ZIP/POSTAL CODE: _____________________ COUNTRY: _____________________________ COUNTRY: _____________________________ PHONE: _____________________________ PHONE: _____________________________ CompuServe ID: _______________________(Optional) NOTE: Parity Solutions sends a serial number for each registration and instructions for serializing your program. A diskette containing the latest releases of all Parity Solutions shareware products is available for $5.00 U.S. The current release of PSEDIT is avail- able for downloading on CompuServe in the IBMSYS forum. QTY DESCRIPTION PRICE EA. TOTAL PRICE ___ PSEDIT license and registration $24.00 ___________ ___ PSEDIT Network license and registration 95.00 ___________ ___ Parity Solutions shareware diskette 5.00 ___________ International postage outside U.S., 1.00 ___________ Canada and Mexico. Total Enclosed: ___________ Diskette size (if ordered): __ 5.25" 360k __ 5.25" 1.2M __ 3.5" 760k Thank you for doing business with Parity Solutions. (817) 467-7818 ==============================================================================