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- KILARUTL:
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- The Kilar Utilities for 360K diskettes containing no subdirectories.
- This program supplies a number of enhancements to DOS and even
- the Norton Utilities for operations with diskettes.
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- To invoke the program, type:
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- KILARUTL
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- in response to the DOS prompt with the program in the default drive.
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- The program will prompt the user to specify which drive the diskette
- to be analyzed is in. At that point the program reads the File Allocation
- Tables and Directory areas of the diskette. The program calculates how
- fragmented the file structure of the diskette is. If it is excessively
- fragmented, which can greatly reduce file access times, this note is
- displayed on the screen.
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- A menu than appears for various operations the user can specify. The
- user can select one of the following:
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- 1) Display/modify a sector on the diskette - The user specifies which
- sector he wants to display (dump) or modify. The hex contents are
- displayed on the screen. He can than either return to the main
- menu or modify some of the sector's data.
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- ** WARNING - A NOVICE OR EVEN CARELESS EXPERT CAN DESTROY
- DATA BY MISUSING MODIFY. BE CAREFUL! **
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- 2) Display all sectors used by a file - The user enters the name
- of the file desired. The program will display the number of
- each sector allocated to the file.
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- 3) Display a cluster map. The program displays a map showing the
- current use of each cluster (set of two sectors). The file
- it currently belongs to or the fact that the cluster is free
- (not allocated) is displayed for each data cluster on the disk.
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- 4) Save a sector as a file. The program prompts the user to enter
- a sector number. If the cluster containing the sector is free,
- it is saved as file SECTOR.FIL. If currently in use by a file,
- the program will state so and not save the cluster as a file.
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- 5) Display the use of a specified sector. The program prompts the
- user to enter a sector number. The program will inform the
- user whether the sector is currently allocated to a file. If
- it is, it will display the name of the file.
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- 6) Return to DOS.
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- Each operation (except the latter) returns to the main menu after
- completed.
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- JHK 7/8/86
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