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- From: teler@cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews
- Subject: REVIEW: UnDelete 1.02
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 16 Aug 1994 23:25:39 GMT
- Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett
- Lines: 133
- Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator)
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- Reply-To: teler@cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
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- Keywords: disk, file recovery, public domain
- Originator: barrett@karazm.math.uh.edu
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- PRODUCT NAME
-
- UnDelete v1.02
-
- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: This review was updated on August 17, 1994.
- Search for the text "[UPDATE:" to find updated information.
- -Dan]
-
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION
-
- A very fast undelete program for single files.
-
- [UPDATE: The program is available on the Aminet ftp sites in
- the file /pub/aminet/disk/salv/UnDelete.lzh.]
-
-
- AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
-
- Name: ASWare
- Address: t.a.v. Ekke Verheul
- Postbus 2521
- 3000 CM Rotterdam
- The Netherlands
-
-
- LIST PRICE
-
- Public domain.
-
-
- SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
-
- None that I know of. It was developed on an AmigaDOS 2.04 machine
- and works fine on my AmigaDOS 1.3 A500.
-
-
- COPY PROTECTION
-
- None.
-
-
- MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
-
- Amiga 500, 2MB Fast RAM, 1MB Chip RAM
- A590 with 100MB Fujitsu SCSI hard drive
- Kickstart 1.2, Workbench 1.3, ARP
-
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- INSTALLATION
-
- The archive contains an Installer script. However, I did the simple
- thing and just copied the command to C: (which is what the Installer does).
-
-
- REVIEW
-
- Undelete is a small (15K) CLI program that lets you undo the effects
- of a Delete command. If you've deleted the file 'myfile', just enter
- 'undelete myfile', and it will reappear. You can also undelete empty
- directories this way.
-
- I was quite amazed by the speed of this program. Undeleting is
- almost as fast as deleting. This easily makes this program an invaluable
- tool for recovering files you deleted by mistake. It's miles better than
- using a disk recovery tool which scans the disk for deleted files.
-
- Note that you can't undelete files in RAM:, which is quite logical.
- Also, don't try to undelete a file you didn't delete. UnDelete apparently
- tries to scan the disk. Still, it's always possible to stop it with Ctrl-C.
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
-
- It explains how to use the command and gives a list of error
- messages with their meaning. I didn't need more than this.
-
-
- LIKES
-
- I love the speed and simplicity.
-
-
- DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS
-
- I don't like what the program does when you undelete a file
- you didn't delete. I'd prefer a simple message that no such file was
- deleted.
-
- [MODERATOR'S NOTE: I suspect this is not possible to do. If the
- program does not scan the whole disk, how can it be 100% sure that
- the file was not deleted? Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
- - Dan]
-
-
- COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
-
- There are several programs which can undelete files, but they
- usually work by scanning the disk, which takes a lot of time. This is the
- first program I've seen which can simply undelete a file.
-
-
- BUGS
-
- You can't undelete a file in a partition with an odd number of
- sectors. It's a problem shared by other disk utilities (such as FixDisk),
- and is apparently caused by a wrong calculation of the root block (if I
- remember the net discussion correctly).
-
-
- VENDOR SUPPORT
-
- I haven't contacted the author. No e-mail address, sadly.
-
-
- WARRANTY
-
- Hey, it's a PD program.
-
-
- CONCLUSIONS
-
- This is a must have. I won't give UnDelete full marks simply
- because it has a bug which prevents me from using it on 2 of my 3
- partitions.
-
-
- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
-
- Copyright 1994 Eyal Teler. All rights reversed (hey, that's
- what happens after writing a reverse compiler).
-
- ---
-
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