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- Programs to supplement dos. (VERDSK2.COM & FRE.COM)
- The author of these programs is John M. Laurie.
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- 1). The program FRE.COM simpley reads & calculates the total
- amount of disk space & the total amount of disk space available.
- and displays it to the screen. typing FRE returns the default
- drive & typing FRE C: for example returns the specified drive.
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- 2). The program VERDSK2.COM verifies the entire disk selected or
- just a specific area by tracks.
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- 3). VERDSK2.COM will detect any data errors and try to correct them.
- VERDSK2.COM will display any uncorrectable errors found.
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- 4). VERDSK2.COM detects two kind of errors.
- These are fatal errors and unrecoverable errors.
- A). if a total of 5 unrecoverable errors are found the program terminates.
- B). An example of a fatal error would be a data error on the disk.
- C). An example of an unrecoverable error would be the drive door is open.
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- 5). This is the second release of verdsk.com. (rev 2.0)
- A). Improvements have been made to the disk file (error.lst) report.
- B). Also this program should be more compatible with different types of
- fixed and floppy drives.