Friday, July 8, 2005

FRET version 0.0.3 Released!

I have finally published version 0.0.3 on Sourceforge.net. This is definitely the most significant release to date as it now actually provides some useful functionality. Ok, its still pretty limited but its coming along. So if your a looking for a *NIX commandline tool to help you understand the inner workings of an undocumented file format, you now have to look no further.

In this release I have added the hashing of raw data to create a fingerprint of each proposed data structure. This allows for the efficient comparison of structures (Grams). For the hash algorithm I used Landon Curt Noll's FNV algorithm, which he has kindly released in the Public Domain, see Landon's website. This release has also removed the annoying over-zealous detection of offsets within the data. However, there is still lots of work to be done.......