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From: wilker@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: disk searcher
Summary: Try DU
Message-ID: <7067@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 88 18:38:52 GMT
References: <LIN.12457038585.BABYL@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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In article <LIN.12457038585.BABYL@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>, LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Herb Lin) writes:
> is there any public software that will help me search through a hard
> disk regardless of file structure for text and then retrieve it into a
> file?  (in other words, to search through a partially trashed disk).
> 


DU (latest version 89 or so) will need a harddisk that your BIOS
talks to. It has a search command, and a command to save sectors into
a CP/M file. It's not automated, but is do-able. You can get DU from  
the Sintel-20 archives. There are various other diskzapper programs
about, but DU is a standard.