Hello Jim,
Could you see about getting permission to release the source code for this CHKDSK?
I'll see what I can do, but chances are small. Our department decided that all graduate thesises are its valuable intellectual property not to be released in whole or in part. I wonder how it was possible to get permission to release even the executable! There is strong influence of Microsoft and even a specialisation called "Microsoft Information Technologies" supplied with M$ materials. We've turned into brain exporters and this is both a big shame and a sure sign that Bulgaria is really on its death bed without young blood. Oh, sorry but it seems we can't escape from politics!
It isn't much use to the FreeDOS community if we don't have access to the source code to make modifications, improvements, etc.
Sure, but just a minor note - it may not be of much use to the *developers* community, but I hope it *can* be to the *users* community, even without a source code. After all, the goal of CHKDSK is to... check disks and fix them (even with FAT32 :)
Perhaps I should have posted my announcement in the users mailing list instead? I'll do it now.
Even if the code is commented in Bulgarian, I'm sure the code will be readable by someone who would like to make improvements.
You obviously haven't seen our students' source code :) It's usually a strange mix of Bulgarian and English :( Even if it was readable, the assembly parts of it (it's written in 1/3 C and 2/3 Assembler) are spaghetti-code and very difficult to understand. And that's not only students. Take UDMA code for example. Its author Jack R. Ellis has commented everything but it's still very hard to understand - that's one of the reasons why there are no volunteers to continue its development.
You say that the grad students can't support this version of CHKDSK - the best way to continue improving the program is therefore to open up the code.
There is source code and source code. Some isn't understandable even by its authors in 6 months :)
Regards, Lucho
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