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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:59:17 +0400
From:      Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
To:        Thomas Farrell <info@mvcg.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to extract 512 bytes from a file
Message-ID:  <20040619085917.GA1820@Shark.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <002001c455ae$8d16ab00$0b0a0a0a@neonduron>
References:  <002001c455ae$8d16ab00$0b0a0a0a@neonduron>

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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:36:04PM -0400,
 Thomas Farrell probably wrote:

> I was thinking I could take a working avi and extract the first 512
> bytes and insert it into the beginning of a bogus file. Does anyone
> think this may work?

Given the number of compression formats actually hiding under the '.avi'
extension, and that the most sensitive information is usually in the
header, I doubt that. Unless you know for sure what should be there,
this won't work.

> Any idea how I can accomplish this?

dd(1). Especially `seek=3D...', `skip=3D...' and `conv=3Dnotrunc'.

> Do I smoke too much weed?

Only if you think you're going to guess 512 bytes of the header from
scratch:)

--=20
DoubleF
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
		-- Aesop

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