How would I open the windows95 SWAP file as read only, I want to read some info in it, but I keep getting permission denied.
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How would I open the windows95 SWAP file as read only, I want to read some info in it, but I keep getting permission denied.
Programatically or otherwise ?
yeah, well, with a hex editor, but I need to write a hex editor on my own, the computer has no way for me to put one on it.
What is stopping you from installing a Hex Editor? There are many downloadable from various sites like the PC magazine site. There are also file manager utilities like Ztree which have read only hex viewers
No internet, or network, or Cd/floppy is broken (I think piece of plastic stuck inside), its an old PC, I think 233MHz, 32RAM, not my Pc, its some PC in my school, they use it to teach kids how to type and stuff.
You can't open the swap file, since it'll always be changing.
you could try booting into dos and copying it to another file and view that file
If you have more than one partition, you can assign the Swap file to another partition. The original will still be in the first partition. The OS probably does not erase the contents when the system shuts down, so you are likely to be able to view what it looked like when you restarted (required to activate the new Swap file assignement).
My Swap file is usually on the third of three disks. Now and then I reassign it to the primary partition on my first disk to avoid certain problems.
Windows 98SE (andprobably any other OS) does not allow even read access to the Swap file, so viewing it dynamically has got to be a job for a very savy guru.
If you have a Linux distrobution, you can read it from there, but not write to it (unless it's FAT32 and not NTFS). However, the Linux Kernel's NTFS module doesn't care about security permissions and thus you can read it even if it's set not to be readable. It's a good workaround.