UNDELETE + COUNT: Improved bug-fixing release!
Eric Auer <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Nov 2002 16:37:28 +0100 (MET)
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freedos.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, I have fixed a bug in UNDELETE that nobody noticed for a long time: It was limited to 1.44 MB size images! (The Linux version always uses test.img - which may be a symlink to a device - as the current "drive" and source of data) And no, it does not use LBAcache code ;-). Now both the Linux and the DOS version derive the drive geometry completely from the boot sector. As a bonus, FAT32 is now detected, but not supported yet (all interesting parts of the FAT32 geometry are displayed, UNDELETE then exits, as no other FAT32 treatment is yet implemented). While working on UNDELETE, I have noticed a possible signedness bug and removed it. It is likely that this bug was quite active in spoiling your abilities to make use of UNDELETE. I have also removed a possible stack corruption bug when displaying the help screen of COUNT (or COUNT2 or COUNT3: they differ in how far up the process chain they modify the count environment variable). Both UNDELETE and COUNT (as single zip or as part of undelete) are now online in updated versions at: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ Have fun and efficient data recueing and metadata backuping events with the new bugfixed version. Cheers, Eric. PS: As a bonus, I have stolen an idea of Andreas Foerster. My version is called zecho2.com (69 bytes!). It works like echo, but a ~ will be interpreted as "switch to highlight mode" and a @ will be interpreted as "turn highlight mode off". I personally prefer using ANSI escapes and my eecho (available as .sys and .com!), but what the heck... Get my version at the above mentioned directory, subdirectory specials/ ... Thanks to Andreas for providing the initial version (which was fine apart from being 77 bytes huge and failing to display the 1st character of the argument ;-)).