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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: What's latest version of DiskSalv?
Message-ID: <22039@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 May 91 08:35:11 GMT
References: <9037@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9037@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>What is the latest version of Dave Haynie's Disksalv?

>Grepping around FILES.Z from ab20 turned up dsalve1.42.  This was in a
>comp.binaries.amiga archive.  The doc file promised a version 2.00 was
>"well under way."

It still is.  I haven't had time to work on it since about September.  It
is close fully functional, and still quite buggy.  The disk recovery stuff
works about 20% better than DiskSalv V1.42 or (ha! ha!) FixDisk.  It also
has a reasonably nice fix-in-place mode and an undelete mode.  Also, it
works via an Intuition interface (something like the "teaser.pic" image that
comes with V1.42, only more Intuition-2.0-ish, since 2.0 has become quite
finalized since I did up the first DS 2.00 user interface design (looking
over at the NeXT machine we had here).

>The reason I want this is that a friend of mine has a floppy for her
>Amiga 500 that went bad.  She's not a techie, so I'm not sure what's wrong
>other than that she's not able to read what's in her WordPerfect files.
>She's nowhere near me (100's of miles), so I want to have a full
>toolkit when I try to recover stuff from her disk.  So.....

DiskSalv V1.42 can do about all that can be done to a floppy.  The main point
of V2.00 is an easier user interface, better hard disk and undelete support,
and a few new tricks for finding things that couldn't be found before.  Anyway,
if I'm lucky, I'll have a chance to get back to it before next September...

		May you also live in interesting times
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