Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:47:09 -0300 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee version 5.24 released From: "Jan van Wijk" Some nice enhancements to the DFSee disk tool ... Based on some discussion on eCS 1.1 installation trouble and my own testing with LVM, I decided to restrict the length of all LVM-names to 19 instead of the architectured 20 positions. There seem to be too many buggy parts in LVM.EXE that cause problems with this ... The DFSee LVM command will even fix the 'too long' ones for you automatically (see DFSHOWTO.TXT item 55). To aid in better problem reporting on DFSee but on things like eCS installation as well, I have added a simple to use QUERY option to DFSee (a bit like "FDISK /query or LVM /query") The output is optimized for use in email and newsgroup postings by restricting the line-length to 67 characters. Just try "DFSOS2 query" with 5.24 to see this new format. (and check out DFSHOWTO.TXT item 56 for other options) Then Mike O'Conner did a rigorous review to all DFS*.TXT documentation files, making many style/typo corrections. Thanks for that Mike! DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm Direct download links: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee524.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee524.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee524.zip Most important functional changes: - QUERY With no parameters, show compact partition list - DIRFIND, FILEFIND added proper -? style help text - DFSee -B- switch to surpress banner logo with copyright - PART -S Use double-line spacing with -s or -C format - PART -C Compact (space) separated list for email/newsgroups - LVM Allow -n without -d or with -d:* (to set name on all) - LVM Restrict to 19 char names, shorten too long ones - PART Warnings on LVM 20-char names and consistency issues - FIXEXT Added -all option, better confirmation message - PART/MAP Show bootsector read-errors but continue reading - MAP Fixed trap on 0 cylinder geo or narrow screen - PTE Fixed trap on "dfsos2 pte -d:2", no info read yet - PART/MAP Show INT13 details if -p (pedantic) switch is used - PTE Indicate changes and refresh info on the screen - BMP -d -? help; Fixed display for other disk, disk param - TxWin Fixed window-paint bug with large usage text (DFSWIN) - PART/MAP Minor update to geo displays, allow 3-digit S:255= - W2KBM Refresh DFSee-cache after fix, removes the warning - STORE Fixed text for virtuals (used in CLONE/IMAGE etc) - DISK/MAP OS/2 2.xx and Windows-NT-4 MBR code recognized now Check DFS*.TXT files for details, all changes listed in DFSHIST.TXT Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 5.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email. Existing 4.xx registrations can be upgraded to 5.xx as well. But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee! Regards, Jan van Wijk ======================================================================== DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - dfseeDESPAM at fsys.nl -- Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California, October 18-19 http://www.warpstock.org [Moderator's note: Because of the incredible increase in SPAM lately I will now endeavor to add DESPAM to email addresses in all posts to the News list. Yes I know that the ReplyTo and From addresses are not modified. This action is to protect email addresses that will appear in HTML pages. If you wish to send a response to someone listed in the post be sure to remove the "DESPAM" from any email address in the body of the post.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org