Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 16:25:26 12/17/98
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On December 17, 1998 at 08:14:47, Kai Lübke wrote: >On December 16, 1998 at 12:11:11, James Robertson wrote: > >>I heard somewhere that someone found a way to increase selective search beyond >>10, with even better results. > > >It is actually quite easy: >All you need is a hex editor (I use the one in Norton Commander for DOS) to open >the respective .cmx personality file and change the "06" or "0A" >for the selective search depth to a greater number. > >Maybe it takes a little guessing if there is more than one such value. > >If you want to find out, just save a personality "CM6000SS10" which is equal to >the default CM6000 except that selective search is set to 10. >Now compare the two personalities for the one byte that is different (OK, maybe >there are a few more because of the name change? Dunno if that is stored inside >the file, too.) > >This thing was not my idea (sorry I forgot who to give credit to), but I >successfully tried it myself with CM5500. > >--- >Shep The SS setting is at hex offset 50. I went to download.com ... file utilities, and downloaded hextool.zip (116KB). I found the location using the method you mentioned. Finding and editing the location was effortless. The modified personality works, and the new SS setting is shown in the edit personalities screen. But I did no testing.
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