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- The following files should be in this package:
-
- BOOTLOAD.COM The BOOTLOAD program
- BOOTLOAD.DOC Documentation file for BOOTLOAD
- FIXFAT.EXE The FIXFAT program
- FIXFAT.DOC Documentation file for FIXFAT
- HDTEST.EXE The HDTEST program
- HDCHEK.EXE The HDCHEK program
- HDTEST.DOC Documentation file for HDTEST/HDCHEK
- HDTESTDD.BIN Device driver for use with SS or DM partitions
- MAKETXT.EXE DOC file processor (see below)
- README.1ST This file
-
- The HDTEST.DOC, BOOTLOAD.DOC, and FIXFAT.DOC files are formatted to be printed
- out on a (otherwise "dumb") printer which is capable of underlining by doing a
- <CR> without a <LF> and overtyping - almost all modern printers can do (or
- simulate) this. If you want to view the files in an editor and/or TYPE them to
- the console, you will need to remove the underlining. To do this, simply give
- the command "MAKETXT fname" (without the quotes, of course), replacing "fname"
- with the name of the file you wish to convert. MAKETXT will read the fname.DOC
- file (which it expects to find in the current directory) and write a second
- file called fname.TXT, which can be edited or TYPEd without difficulty.
-
- Users of versions of HDTEST prior to V5.35a should see the "CHANGES FROM
- PREVIOUS VERSIONS" section of the documentation.
-
- Versions of HDTEST between (and including) the Shareware V5.35 and V5.39
- contained two significant, though non-destructive, bugs in the code which
- implemented "incremental" disk testing. In summary:
-
- 1) The in-memory map of tested clusters was not correctly initialized to zero
- (when not read from the disk) potentially resulting in untested clusters being
- "missed" during testing. It appears that this got by myself, my beta-testers,
- and a large number of users because HDTEST was generally run on a "clean"
- (freshly rebooted) system. Under these special circumstances, memory is
- already zero-filled, and the map would not have needed initializing.
-
- 2) An existing disk map of tested clusters (HDTESTED.MP0) was not deleted
- after a _complete_ run of HDTEST. This appears to have resulted from a "minor"
- change in the code made after the completion of formal beta-testing.
-
- These bugs have been fixed in the current Shareware (V5.35a) and Registered
- (V5.40) versions of HDTEST.
-