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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Defragger
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.191927.6628@uvm.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 19:19:27 GMT
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From article <1991Feb15.231336.4325@mentorg.com>, by 
dclemans@mentorg.com (Dave Clemans @ APD x1292):

> bammi@acae127.cadence.com (Jwahar R. Bammi) writes:
>> > I (and several others who have e-mailed me) am in need of a hard disk
>> > defragmentation utility.  I have an ICD host adapter, TOS 1.4, and am
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I'm the author of Tuneup, such as it is.  (Though not of its documentation.)

The worst part 8-).

> A version does exist that should handle "big" partitions, though it's never
> gotten any testing (that I know of) beyond local people.  It was sent many 
> months ago to Michtron for more general testing & release, but I've haven't
> heard anything since then.
 
> I also have no idea as to what its current status is since the
> sale of Michtron to that New Jersey firm.  As I said above, I haven't
> heard anything from Michtron/etc. in many months.  I don't even know
> how to contact the New Jersey company that supposedly bought Michtron.

Sorry to hear about that.
 
> If it was definitely clear that I legally could do so, I would be
> willing to give "special" updates (with the understanding that this
> version has not been as extensively tested as previous versions.)
> However I will not spend any money to get such a legal clarification.
 
> dgc

If you can give patches or end up having somebody selling (and
upgrading old versions, I hope 8-) please fix two more things.  

1. Write the fats and directories asap (as you move the files) instead
of at the end of everything - PC defraggers do that and can be stopped
in the middle of things and lose nothing, or have a blackout and only
lose 1 file - which a utility can sometimes recover.  The time saved
in doing it the old way (1st move all files, then write fats and then
directories) is not worth the agony IMHO (and is not so slow on the PCs
either, in my experience 8-).

2. Run a spell checker on the strings in your code 8-).  I'm tired of
reading that such and such a file is now "contigous" ("contiguous" is
the correct spelling 8-).

Good luck, (for all of us, if you can swing distributing the fixes 8-).

Bob Pegram

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