I'm playing with QXL.WIN files, again! As part of something I'm working on, I needed a simple way to examine the internals of a qxl.win file in an easy manner. To this end, QXLDump was born.
At the moment I have a download for 64 bit Linux and 32/64 bit Windows only. You can see a sample of my current win3 drive - which is a full set of the Sqlite 3 sources from some time back, at http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QXLDump/win3.html. The file was created with a random selection of options! There is a verbose mode, not demonstrated, which hexdumps each and every block making up the directories, files etc - best avoided unless you are debugging a foible, or something similar! The Read-me file is at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QXLDump/README.html. The Linux 64 bit download is at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QXLDump/QXLDump. The Windows download is at: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QXLDump/QXLDump.exe. No additional libraries etc are required, everything is in plain vanilla C++ with the odd bit of the STL thrown in for good measure - thats the Standard Template Library. As ever, source code is available at my GitHub location, and will be cloned into the SinclairQL repository as soon as I'm happy with it. I have a couple of minor changes to make, but nothing spectacular. The source is at: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QXLDump which you can freely clone if you already use git, or, download as a zip file from this location: https://github.com/NormanDunbar/QXLDump/archive/master.zip The utility allows you to dump out the following: The header The map The root directory The free space list Any datafile Any directory Any single block And most of the above can be accompanied by a hexdump - if you are brave. Output is only to HTML at the moment and I have no plans to make it text only, at the moment - but if you have that particular itch, feel free to scratch it and add the required code to do exactly that. :-) Have fun! Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
