Topic: Automated flyoff editing
I have an itch that requires me to modify a large amount of flyoffs in a repeatable manner. To give some background information, there are several multichannel source devices which refer to their outputs numerically starting at zero, however whoever built the Nion file assigned flyoffs starting at one. So, for example, device foo, channel 3 is accessed via the flyoff IN.foo.4. As you can imagine this is highly undesirable.
As it is, these flyoffs are quite numerous and spread throughout the file. Manually fixing this off by one issue would be extremely time consuming and hugely error prone; I would prefer an automated solution. Some sniffing around reveals that flyoff names can be found in the data.pdn, Operations.1.page.dat, and Operations.2.page.dat. Unfortunately these are not plain text files, but the flyoff name is stored as text. If a search and replace function was applied to these files, and the archive tarred back up, is that all there is to it?
