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This is a program that I have found useful in several circumstances: when
you need to transport files on floppy discs (e.g. from Stanford to Europe)
it is better to be sure that all the files you have copied are readable
before slipping 7,000 miles away from the original material. This program,
named DT for "Disk Test", tests the whole disc: at first reading all the
cylinders one by one, to be sure that the disc itself is reliable; then
reads, record by record, all the files on the disc. This last step can
take long time if you have several files; but it is, as I think, the most
important in order to check the data reliability.
DT has been written specifically for floppies: to check hard disk cylinders
there are diagnostic programs that usually come with them; and to check the
readabality of a subset of the files you have somewhere, you should try the
program VERFIFY that you will find in the Fred Fish collection. I decided
to mimic the aesthetic of the DT program from Peter Norton (in the IBM-PC
Norton Utilities); but I avoided the Peter Norton's option of a switch in
the command line to skip the cylinder test or the file test: in my opinion
both phases are essential and not too much time consuming, so the user
should perform both.
To run this program from the CLI, enter DT DFx:, where "x" is the floppy
unit number (the colon can be omitted); clicking on the DT icon from the
Workbench will open a window on which you will be prompted for the unit
to test. The output is self-explaining.
A thank to:
- Commodore: for the Amiga;
- SAS: for SAS-C v5.10;
- ASDG, Inc.: for CygnusEd Professional;
- Gimpel Software: for FlexeLint;
- Joel Swank: for VERIFY (but I did not borrow almost
anything from him);
- Peter Norton: for the original DT.
You are free to use, modify and freely distribute this program; but you
must not charge money for it, and leave my name and my notes as they are
If you will modify DT and will take care to send me the changed program,
you will make me happy. My address can be found in the source header.
Have fun !
Maurizio