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- DISKED Release Notes
- 11-Dec-1993
- version 2.5.1293
-
- 0. For bug fixes see the end of this file.
-
- 1. DISKED is Freeware. It is a fully functional MS-DOS disk utility
- created by me (see below). DISKED can do many neat things which
- may be helpful to you which is why I am giving it away. Although
- I can not supply any gaurantees, I can supply support and the
- source code (about 19000 lines of C) to anyone who wants it.
- For more information about the source code see paragraph 4.
-
- 2. The algorithm DISKED uses for computing the cluster/file allocation
- information is not too fast and it may appear that DISKED is doing
- something weird when it runs because there will be much disk access
- that can take several seconds.
-
- I have been fine tuning DISKED for many years now (too many to
- mention) and DISKED has never caused and problems except displaying
- garbage information.
-
- 3. The accompaning documentation for DISKED is kind of brief. There are
- some commands and aspects that are not covered. I am "in-between"
- word processors and am working on fixing this.
-
- There will also be a laser printer manual out "real soon" which I will
- send to anyone who asks for it.
-
- 4. The source code is now available through CUG (the C Users Group);
- see the file SOURCE.TXT for more information.
-
- 5. A major bug was found in version 2.2.793 (oops...): drives that did
- not support DOS Interrupt 21, function 36 (or if it somehow failed)
- would cause a memory allocation error and may have caused DISKED to
- hang. There was also a similar problem with ramdrives that did not
- have 512 byte sectors. This code has been completely re-written
- and has been thoroughly tested and re-tested using a debugger and
- using a memory-allocation testing program called Bounds Checker
- by Nu Mega.
-
- A similar bug was in version 2.3.1193: on drives with 16-bit FATs
- the last FAT sector was not read when indexing files causing a
- memory allocation error if the drive was full or nearly full.
-
- Gregg Jennings
- P.O. Box 200
- Falmouth, MA 02541-0200
- (508)-540-9711
-