FEdit

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What is FEdit?

Fedit Plus modestly claims to be "a file and disk editor." That's wrong: it's "the file and disk editor.” Fedit Plus is the first application every Mac owner should buy, and no Mac owner should be without it. It has advanced features for the most technically minded and easy to use (and valuable) features for the newest user. 

By definition a file and disk editor allows you to get down to the basic code in the Mac, and change it if you so desire. That, of course, means you have the power to not only fix or improve things, but to hopelessly trash them. Follow all the warnings the manual and program present to you, and carefully consider everything you do. That said, start using Fedit Plus. 

Fedit Plus can do far more than just alter code. It can show you where and what everything on a volume is, work with (and often save) otherwise unreadable (unmountable) disks, and recover deleted files (on MFS volumes only in this version). Hard disk users can quickly determing the fragmentation index of drives (that's a guide as to when reinitialization will speed things up). Boot blocks can be written to both HFS and MFS volumes, and edited if necessary. No other readily available tool can do that. Another valuable feature is the Reverse Forks. While this ability would seem useless, it can be very useful in accessing text type material that winds up in the resource fork.

Displays can be viewed and modified in either ASCII or hexadecimal format. Any string (either ASCII or hex) can be efficiently searched for. Screens can be printed at will, and users have a very wide choice of cursor shapes.

A particularly important feature for all levels of users is the ability to examine and modify all of a file's Finder attributes. This is the only program that can actually modify all of them. The file recovery features (mostly in the Special menu) primarily work an MFS volumes, although by the time you read this, John Mitchell, Fedit Plus’ creator, may have solved the HFS puzzle.

The documentation is very special. It begins with the most detaled explanation of MFS and HFS available. It's a feast for the techies, and the rest of you can just read the back of the manual and plunge right into this most valuable application.

Beamer, Scott.. (September 1986). Fedit Plus. MacUser. (pgs. 40, 42).


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Architecture


Motorola 68K



System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0





Compatibility notes

Fedit is a file and disk editor. It allows low level access direct to disks, and is often used in attempts to repair files or disks.


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