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From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Not a DOS disk
Message-ID: <373@io.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 18:53:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: io.373
Posted: Tue Sep  8 18:53:17 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Sep-87 01:16:59 EDT
References: <355@palladium.UUCP>
Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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In article <355@palladium.UUCP> nw@palladium.UUCP (Neil Webber) writes:
>
>While I'm at it, can non-developers get DiskEd?  I found a copy of DiskEd
>on some BBS somewhere (don't know if it was legit), but it appears to be the
>old version that doesn't grok hard disks.  It would have come in handy; I
>had to roll my own instead.
>
>Neil Webber / Palladium Data Systems / (No longer confused with Jordan Marsh)
>               Marlboro MA, 01752  {linus!alliant, harvard!cfisun}!palladium!nw

If you can't find DiskEd, cheer up. There is a disk editor called "Sectorama"
written by the guy who wrote Faery Tale adventure that has just been released
to the public domain. It works with hard disks, and is MUCH nicer than DiskEd.
It has a display window of the current sector, and will follow hash tables
etc. automatically. I know it is available on BIX, hopefully Mr. Fish will
get a copy on his next series of disks.

By the way, I have had my own troubles with AmigaDos and hard disks (garbaged
directories), that seemed simple but still were beyond Diskdoctor. 

What I want to know is - Is Commodore going to release a fsck type utility
for hard disks? They had better - I expect most A2000 customers will have
hard disks, and none of the disk fixing programs I have seen are even smart
enough to handle a simple case where a file is deleted, but the directory
thinks it is still there. This is pretty basic. I'm surprised the validator
doesn't handle stuff of this type, much less that there is no OS utility to
do it.

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			Carlos Smith
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