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Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 18:45:32 EST
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A friend recently lost a file containing 2000 characters...of DNA sequence.
(i.e. AGCTAGGTATG).  If it was text this wouldn't have come up, but
this now becomes important information.  When he lost the file
(I don't know how; it was his first hour using a PC) I went looking with debug
in a limited sort of way to find the text but couldn't.  I didn't know
about debug's S command at the time.

So, does edlin put its working buffer in a predictable location,
like x bytes below the top of memory or x bytes offset from where
it was loaded itself?  Any assistance would be appreciated because
the microbiology department has a lot of PCs and a lot of very
inexperienced people using them.  If I could come up with a cookbook
recipe for saving such files it would save much grief.

Please mail responses to me since I don't alway have the time to read
this newsgroup.  

TIA,
dan davison  davison@bnl.arpa, ...decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl!davison