Quadrivio General Edit Info

What is General Edit? General Edit is a file utility for Mac OS designed to help programmers and other software professionals view or edit data files with complex binary formats. Advantages of General Edit: *** Quick insight into data structure contents. *** Easier than studying MPW’s dumpfile output. *** Faster debugging with clear display of data. *** Saves coding time with direct data editing. What are the benefits? • General Edit provides quick and clear insight into data structure contents; this benefits software engineers who previously marked up data file listings by hand or wrote custom programs to analyze files. • Software testers can use General Edit to examine and verify a program’s exact file output and to modify files for test cases. • The tool especially benefits users who develop or test applications that read or write files in a custom format; debugging is faster and programmers can save coding time with General Edit’s features for direct data viewing and editing. • After a programmer has defined a file format, technical support staffers can use General Edit to analyze or repair files that have been corrupted or to help diagnose customers’ problems. • MIS engineers can use General Edit to analyze the structure of files of unknown origin and to help extract data from “legacy” files when the original program is no longer available. General Edit is a powerful alternative to simple hex or ASCII file editors. The user types familiar, C-like statements to specify the file format. The format is checked and compiled interactively and the tool immediately displays the file’s contents in one or more formats. The file’s format specification can be saved separately and re-used. What the users say: “…the program is quite effective in its purpose…I find the easy accessibility of the file structure to be a great advantage…” “I have found General Edit to be a very useful tool…” “I really like this product. It fills a gap in my suite of development tools that I have had to hand code in the past.” “You have a powerful product here. The many utilities that are within my grasp greatly facilitate my workings with file formats. I look forward to using it for all of my file format editing.” “The power to really examine the file as shown by your default resource fork structure definitions, is awesome. This is a really cool tool!” Indications that you could save time and benefit from using General Edit: * You develop or test applications that read or write files in a custom format. * You use tools such as MPW’s dumpfile tool to analyze files. * You have to debug problems such as your program failing when it reads certain files. * You have to repair or analyze files that have been corrupted. * You need to analyze the structure of files of unknown origin. Example window: How General Edit works: 1) Define your file format a) Easy, familiar C-like statements. b) Complex format…