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HPFSRead 1.6e (c) 1993 by Peter Kraufmann
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IF YOU WANT A GERMAN VERSION PLEASE LOOK FOR 'HPFSR16D.ZIP'
1. Overview
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This program is able to display directories (with long filenames !) and to
copy files from OS/2 HPFS-partitions to FAT partitions under plain DOS.
After starting HPFSRead you will see a table containing all HPFS-partitions
found on the first two physical harddisks.
'Startsector' is the logical sector on which the partition begins
'Name' is the Volume Label of the partition
'CHKDSK Call' shows the date and time of the last CHKDSK /F call
'Dirty' indicates if no correct Shutdown was performed on the drive
Note: When HPFSRead is running under OS/2 'Dirty' may be set for all
drives OS/2 was writing to since system-bootup - don't care about
If you select a partition the root directory will be displayed.
On the first line you can see the current path and partition number.
Directory entries are OS/2-DIR-like shown (e.g. date,time,size,EA-size,name).
Directories are marked yellow, normal files white and hidden files gray.
Sometimes you will see entries marked in RED, these are fragmented files which
allocate more then 8 conclusive sector-blocks on disk. You can use for example
the GAMMATECH (tm) utilities to defragment these files.
Beside the name you will see the file attributes:
S=System H=Hidden R=Read only
L=Volume Label D=Directory E=Long filename (not 8.3)
When the last dir-entry was shown (or if you pressed <ESC> ) you will prompted
to enter either a filename or directory.
If you enter a directory the program will change to that directory an display
it immediately.
Pressing <ENTER> brings you back to the screen with the partition table.
Entering a filename starts copying this file. You will prompted to enter
the destination which can be a single filename or a complete path.
2. Limitations
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- Copying from FAT to HPFS (under DOS !) is not possible at this time.
- Partitions on *SCSI* drives are only detected if the physical drive number
is 1 (80h) or 2 (81h). That's because HPFSRead uses Int 13h-services to
access the drives which are provided by the most SCSI-hostadapters only
for the first two drives.
- If there are some problems with not detected HPFS partitions you can use
HPFSREAD /log to produce an error-report.
- If you want to send me a mail about a problem please redirect error-log
to a file and send it with a description of your hardware and partitions
via netmail: 2:242/1213@Fidonet (Peter.Kraufmann@f1213.n242.z2.fidonet.org).
3. Remarks
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This version of HPFSRead is for testing and can be copied and uploaded free
on any BBS or Network if the package is unchanged and contains _all_ files.
*** There are no warranties for anything ***
4. Future plans
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- TurboVision (tm) user interface with additional features
- Copying from FAT to HPFS
- Device driver for DOS
Berlin, November 1993
(Peter Kraufmann)