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- DFIX Copyright (C) 1985, 1986 Howard Rumsey Jr.
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- DFIX disk fix utility. Reads the whole DOS partion on a disk (floppy,
- hard disk, ramdisk) and, if directed, marks bad clusters in the FAT(s).
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- Usage:
- dfix [d:]
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- d: is an optional device specifier. If not specified DFIX will
- use the default device.
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- If DFIX finds a bad cluster already allocated to a file, this will
- be reported and no further action taken. If DFIX finds an unallocated
- cluster, DFIX marks its local copy of the FAT. At the end of the testing
- the user is asked if he wishes to permanently mark the cluster as BAD.
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- DFIX is a substitute for the disktest program included with Version 3
- of The Norton Utilities (tm). The Norton package contains many other
- useful tools. I wrote this program and am placing it in public domain
- because of its (sometimes) critical value.
-
- This program may be freely copied and used for any non-commercial
- purpose.
-
- Howard Rumsey
- Caltech
- Pasadena, CA 91125
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- CompuServe [72426,3722]
- December 10, 1986
-
- v1.2 Toad Hall Tweak, 7 May 91
- Slight touches for Turbo C compile.
- Reformatted to a "normal" indentation, etc., ala K&R.
- No functional changes.
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- Works fine on my good old Seagate 20 megger, no promises
- for any of those big suckers, non-MFM drives, etc.
-
- Oh .. you'd better use the TCCONFIG.TC I'm including in the
- package. The main reason: byte vs. word alignment. If you
- use word alignment, the structure comes out wrong! Trust me!
- Or, under TC's options, just set the compiler data alignment
- to "byte" rather than word. Suit yourself.
-
- I don't quite understand how an author can give a program
- to the public domain, yet maintain copyrights and distribution
- restrictions .. sigh .. guess the "Public Domain" definition
- has changed somewhat.
-
- David Kirschbaum
- Toad Hall
- kirsch%maxemail@uunet.uu.net