Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Defragger Message-ID: <1991Feb12.043242.24240@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 12 Feb 91 04:32:42 GMT References: <1991Feb7.090026@ncsuvx.enet.dec.com> <1991Feb8.224200.16991@uvm.edu> Sender: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) Organization: Actrix Information Exchange, Wellington, New Zealand Lines: 22 Comment-To: bammi@acae127.cadence.com Distribution:world In article bammi@acae127.cadence.com (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes: > i seem to remember trying one from atari called chkdsk or something > like that. it was slower than molasses, and the user interface really > sucked. i would stay away from that one. i wish the author of tuneup > would fix his util for large partitions. sans that problem, i have > used it for many years with great success. > > i think beckmeyer had something along the same lines too. > -- > bang: uunet!cadence!bammi jwahar r. bammi Note ; CHKDSK3 is not for general release as its for Developers only, but I would like to know more about Molasses, Have not heard about that one, I do have 2 German ones but they don't do 32meg partitions, but one of these lets you set your R/W options and some otheres, but can't decypher the German, it gives you full report on the files that its working on, the R/W option lets you set which files you wan't at the front, (read) and which ones at the back (write), but there is another option that I can't work out, I don't know if its PD, as there is no copyright notice from what I can see.. -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...