haiku/docs/userguide/en/applications/apps-diskprobe.html
Joachim Seemer 714d0c0567 * Fixed link in applications.html
* Added "setup wizard" and some info on IMAP to prefs-e-mail.html. IMAP is a bit
  broken, as was recently found out, so I'll leave it all at that for now.
* Moved every localization-dependent image into a mirror image folder under its
  language (ATM there's only "en"). Only neutral images like icons remain
  directly under /docs/userguide/images.
* Changed all image links accordingly.
* Removed all height and width attributes to ease exchanging images. Only fixed
  size images (icons) will retain them for faster loading.
* Added a special pre.terminal for printouts to save ink. Thanks Rob Tijssen for
  that suggestion.


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<a href="../applications.html#list-of-apps">Applications</a>
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Previous: <a href="apps-deskcalc.html">DeskCalc</a>
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<h1><img src="../../images/apps-images/diskprobe-icon_64.png" alt="diskprobe-icon_64.png"
width="64" height="64" />DiskProbe</h1>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>Deskbar:</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><span class="menu">Applications</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">/boot/system/apps/DiskProbe</span></td></tr>
<tr><td>Settings:</td><td></td><td><span class="path">~/config/settings/DiskProbe_data</span></td></tr>
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<p>DiskProbe is a HEX editor to view and alter data of a file or on a device on a byte-level. It's a very low-level tool and has therefore the potential to really mess things up if you're not careful!</p>
<div class="box-warning">Always work with the backup of a file and be extra careful when working directly on a device.</div>
<p>When starting DiskProbe you'll first be asked for the file or the device to work on. After that you are presented with this interface:</p>
</p><p><img id="diskprobe" src="../images/apps-images/diskprobe.png" alt="diskprobe.png" /></p>
<p>The main view shows always one block of data, the size of which can be adjusted with <span class="menu">View | BlockSize</span>. To the left is the offset to the start of the block, in the middle the data as HEX values and to the right the same as ASCII symbols.<br />
You can move from block to block with the slider above or with <span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">&larr;</span> and <span class="key">ALT</span>&#160;<span class="key">&rarr;</span> and switch between the HEX and ASCII columns with <span class="key">TAB</span>.</p>
<p><span class="menu">Block | Selection</span> will not only show the selection with different endianess (and different radix), it will also interprete the selection as a block offset that you can jump to. It will be grayed out if the position is outside of the file/device.<br />
This is a handy feature mostly when looking at file systems, as they often contain pointers to other blocks.</p>
<p>If the file you're probing includes attributes, the <span class="menu">Attributes</span> menu can be used to open any of them in a new DiskProbe window. Here's the copyright attribute of the <span class="app">AboutSystem</span> application:
</p><p><img id="diskprobe-attribute" src="../images/apps-images/diskprobe-about-attr.png" alt="diskprobe-about-attr.png" /></p>
<p>Depending on the kind of attribute, you'll get a different editor tab besides the always present <i>Raw Editor</i>. For example, there are editors for strings and MIME types or an icon viewer for the vectoricon attribute.</p>
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