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- FILESCAN
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- Written by: Joel Ellis Rea
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- FILESCAN is short for FILE SCANner,
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- and it does just that. It will scan
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- through every block of a file (inclu-
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- ding side sectors of RELative files),
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- and report any errors. By measuring
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- the time it takes to get a correct
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- read, FILESCAN also reports marginal
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- blocks. As it runs, FILESCAN displays
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- the type of the file, the number of
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- blocks, and the track and sector of
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- each block as it scans that block. If
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- it finds an error, it tells the type
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- of error.
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- FILESCAN treats READ ERROR #23's
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- as a special case. Since that error
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- involves garbaged data in a block, as
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- opposed to the block itself being
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- garbaged, the block itself can be
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- easily fixed by writing the data
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- back onto the block. The data remains
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- corrupted, however. Try to fix the
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- block ONLY if you have another copy of
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- the file somewhere or don't need to
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- keep the file.
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