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- stardate: 14121994
-
- short description of extractdata 1st version, 10 minutes coding time:
-
- did you ever face the problem to get crunched data from a non-dos-disk?
- if yes you probably could have used COMDEC by turbo/infect. but is not
- uptodate and it lacks in some crunched formats: eg. PP20, which is power-
- packer-data. with PP20 you can NOT determine how long the crunched data
- really is from the data itself, which is very important to depack.
- here comes it up to EXTRACTDATA:
- make up a big file of the non-dosk-disk using a disk/file-monitor like
- FIMO. and enter:
-
- extractdata dh0:disk1 PP20 ram:
-
- every chunk of data from the file 'disk1' beginning with PP20 and ending
- at the following PP20 will be output to a not determined number of
- files in ram: PP20.001,PP20.002,PP20.003 etc.
- of course there are still some uncertainties about the datasize but it
- helps, besides all other crunched data than PP20 are insensible about
- their filesize for decrunching purposes...
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- WARNINGS:
-
- the checkmark for the cruncher (e.g. PP20) must always be 4 casesenstive
- letters!
-
- you probably will get a lot of DUMMY files which is no crunched data
- at all, it might just start with the checkmark, use your BRAIN!
-
- no overwrite check on output is done!
-
- the most important:
- i have not tested the programme on PP20, yet, no joke!
-
- dont try to run the 020-version on a lamer processor.
-
- i take no responsability for any damages from this small piece of code.
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- see you
-
- marley@csmd.cs.tu-magdeburg.de
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- (in some way or another the functionality of EXTRACTDATA will be
- included in the EXOTIC RIPPER later on, but not yet)
-