Re: Re: Coming soon to your mailbox (part 2)

I would like very much one functional, but:

> Ok it saves me to have to propose it, i think there is a place for three
> disk checking utilities in FreeDOS:
> - a plain command line one that just quickly scans a drive without any user
> interaction and running in such a way that it always chooses the non
> destructive way of fixing errors (chkdsk)

Ok, but need fat 32 too. This would be the most used. This one could even
avoid some problems with no obvious solution. 

> - an interactive program with all the bells and whisles you might amagine,
> this program ia very interactive and lets you pick which files to process
> how (scandisk).

This is for when it hits the fan...

> - DOSFSCK for FAT32 running in 32 bit protected mode.

This has one _very_ strong point: it is well tested and debugged.
I am eager to see it running in real drives ;-)

> PS. Of course DOSFSCK will eventually run in FreeDOS with all the
> functionality you want. There are enough people here that want it to
> succeed. You just cannot expect us all to just drop everything we are
> working on and start working on the tool. Please be a litle bit patient and
> it will come up on top of somebody's list of things to do for FreeDOS.

Yes, FreeDOS is about patience

Eric wrote:
> > there already IS a 32bit FAT32 checking tool for DOS:
> > My DOS (djgpp) port of DOSFSCK (in dosfstools for Linux) is only lacking
...

Eric, I just don't understand why _you_ ported it to DOS (a very nice job),
and then you gives _us_ information about sector access.
If you don't want to do it, it is ok and I thank you _very_much_ for what you
have done so far, but it sounds strange to me

Alain