re: dosck

Hi, you pointed out that there is a port of "doschk" to 32bit DOS.
I guess you are confusing this with my hope that "dosFsck" would
be ported to 32bit DOS. Dosfsck is a filesystem checker for Linux
which can check all kinds of DOS filesystems (fat12,16 and "32"
which is 28: So you can check Win9x filesystems with long filenames
and everything) in its recent versions. It can simulate the changes
before actually trying to fix errors, and it can drop and undelete
single files or directories as a bonus feature. It does lots of
integrity checks, and I generally like it.
At least more than the FreeDOS scandisk lookalike that only looks
good but does close to nothing...
However, I think it was Bart who has pointed out that DOSFSCK cannot
be easily ported to 16bit DOS. A 32bit DJGPP port to DOS should be
quite easy for a 32bit DOS wizard, however. I still hope it will
happen sooner or later ;-). The 16/32bit issue is due to high
memory consumption, by the way. And due to 16bit being quite short
for ints, hehe.

Thanks anyway - you kept the topic "quest for filesystem checkers"
alive. New hope for my dosfsck for dos 32bit wish :-)

> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/

Eric