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Subject: Re: disk status utilities
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 19:30:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 18 19:30:58 1987
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First the good news, I've written a utiltiy which has following functions:

       -disk check (hard disks + floppys) with limited automatic repair
        (a la MS-DOS chkdisk)
       -unerase
       -sector and file  orientated disk editor with search facility
       -disk fragmentation display
       -GEM based user interface
       (and a few things more...)

The bad news:

       -its just slowly moving out of beta-test status (but it seems to be
        quite near release  now)
       -documentation is not finished yet
       -I haven't decided on what to do with it:

                           -Freeware (I've already got one product with this
                            and considering the amount of support it gets
                            (find a commercial product that is as well
                             supported and I'll buy you a beer :-)) I don't
                            get that much back from it (execpt the fame :-)),
                            notice that I don't have a CS in my signature,
                            with other words: I don't get paid for hacking
                            around on computers.....

                          -Shareware, would be probably the fairest method but
                           automatically stops distribution and support via
                           e-mail.

                          -Commercial: probably not worth the trouble.....


If anybody wants to have a look at the beta-test version (with the
usual disclaimers), I could probably handle a few more beta-testers.....


                     Simon Poole
                     K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET