Date:  Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:26:17 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: DFSee version 8.05 released today

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From: Jan van Wijk <jvw at dfsee.com>

DFSee version 8.05 has been released today.

This version extends the powerful HEX/ASCII sector editor to work directly 
on (binary) files as well, keeping the size the same.
 >From the operating system level, just use a command like:

         DFSOS2 edit somefile.bin


Cloning disks with bad-sectors is improved to allow MUCH faster operation, 
and will be enhanced even more in the next versions.

Searching for files in most filesystems has been made a lot faster too, 
using several enhancements to the FIND command.

Several smaller improvements like new menu-items have been made and a few 
bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed ...

DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem 
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS, JFS, and NTFS, 
resizing, imaging and cloning.


More details at:
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:

   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip

   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip

   Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using '805'
         instead of the generic '8xx' version number


Or from the HOBBES website:
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee805.zip
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee


Most important functional changes since 8.03:
  - MOVE     Added 'Smart' checkbox for much faster operation
  - CLONE    Added -skipbads:nnn option, fast bad-sector cloning
  - CLONE    Reset active store on Escape or a failure too!
  - CLONE/IM Show number of bad-sectors in progress status too
  - EDIT     Add Ctrl-E to erase edited item to a hex value or
  - EDIT fn  HEX/ASCII binary sector edit specified filename
  - FAT FS   Detect unmapped clusters, inconsistent bootsector
  - FILEFIND FAT, fixed finding files with extensions like *.c
  - FILEFIND menu dialog, new 'verbose' checkbox, default FAST
  - FILIFIND NTFS, speedup MFT-record search using speedstep 2
  - FIND     Speedstep mode using -i:n option, skip n sectors
  - FIND dlg Add 'Step' field for the -i:Speedstep option
  - FIXBOOT  FAT, added bootcode type 'W = Win-9x on FAT16'
  - FIXBOOT  NTFS create record from template if no spare
  - FIXPBR   Disallow FIXPBR in FDISK mode for safety
  - FS FAT   Fixed trap if the bootsector was a valid NTFS
  - IMAGE    Exact image size is kept the same on writing
  - MENU     Added 'reselect disk' to FS menus; part to FDISK
  - MENU     Reworded NEWMBR submenu text, better style  :-)
  - MENU     Added: 'Edit -> File, Binary edit' to edit files
  - Menu     Edit always starts with 1-sector items
  - PART     Reworded cylinder-alignment messages for clarity
  - PART     Pick-up correct FAT32 label from root directory
  - PART     WARNING on LVM/JFS with DLAT but no BBR info sector
  - PSAVE    Include unformatted bootsectors in .PDx file
  - RESIZE   FAT, fixed maximum size in dialog in some cases
  - SLT      Faster fileinfo on JFS/NTFS/HPFS, no alloc check
  - STARTUP  No 'GETDEVICEPARAMS failed' messages anymore, USB
  - STORE    Added exact image-size in bytes to internal info
  - STORE    Fixed store-nr display: Store #, added imagesize

Regards, JvW


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DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk;  Author of DFSee - 
infoDESPAM at DESPAMdfsee.com

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