THE ULTIMATE EXAMINING UTILITY V2.8 by Richard Karsmakers

Originally  published  in ST NEWS Volume 1 Issue  5,  launched  on 
October 5th 1986.

In  the  previous  issue of ST NEWS,  you might  remember  that  I 
promised "The Ultimate Examining Utility".  Well,  it took a  long 
time but it's finally finished. I might say it took quite a while, 
and  I  am  a bit disappointed in myself for  not  being  able  to 
include  the following options:  Sector Examine (so all   sectors, 
and not just the boot sector), Get BIOS Parameter Block and Format 
Track.  My original plan was to include a monitor/disassembler  as 
well, but I couldn't do that either.
But  it wasn't meant as a superb utility in the first  place,  but 
more  as  an example of how to work with GfA Basic on  a  somewhat 
higher level.  You will find the program listing down here,  while 
there's also a working version of the program supplied on the disk 
with this issue of ST NEWS.




If  you have any questions with regard to "The Ultimate  Examining 
Utility"  Version  2.8,  I  hereby ask you to  send  them  to  our 
correspondence  address.  Please  add a stamp  (or,  if  you  live 
outside  of  Holland,  an International Reply Coupon)  so  we  can 
answer your question(s).

A remark for people who like disk manipulation:  Remember that the 
positions  of  bytes  in the boot sector  starts  counting  at  0, 
whereas  the MID$ command starts at 1.  That's why I  define  each 
MID$ one higher 'as normal'!


