Dagnabbit, that's a brilliant piece of comedy. And there I was trying to make a living by actually programming stuff for thirty years. This guy certainly had a sense of humour that we Germans are undeservedly said to be lacking.
I shall, from now on, include that disclaimer in all my stuff /* if shit doesn't work - sorry - I was sick at the time */ On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 at 10:05, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hallo Herr tom ehlert via Freedos-devel, > > am Sonntag, 2. März 2025 um 09:46 schrieben Sie: > > > Hi everybody, > > > just noted that DOSFSCK is missing from > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/. > > Which is sad as CHKDSK doesn't touch FAT32 drives. I'm not aware of other > > chkdsk like programs for FAT32. > > > Instead I stumbled over this gem of software > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/scandisk/ > > > Citing from SCANDISK.TXT > > > Hi Jim, > > > just before i left the office tonight i gave it a quick try to build the > > diskscan program. It creates a 1KB size COM file which does not much more > > than checking if it can read all sectors of a FAT12 or FAT16 partition. A > > very "basic" start for a "real" ScanDisk. As the file is not very large, i > > have the executable attached, just in case you want to put it in the files > > archive too. > > > I had a quick look at the Pascal source and this looks much more promising. > > It seems to be able to handle even FAT32 partitions, but i don't know how > > far. > > > have a good night, > > > Ralf > > > > Congratulations for this marvel of software engineering. > > Before someone mentions this to me, in this ZIP is also located the much more > serious > SCANDISK_PAS.ZIP, written in a program language defore comments were invented. > > The only comment I could find was > (* if there are any errors above it is because I restarted programming > while I'm still sick!!! *) > > and there is SCANDISK05.ZIP. It's author Imre Leber is also author of CHKDSK > which suggests that > SCANDISK might be some graphical version of CHKDSK. At least CHKDSK mentions > a few common FAT errors that > it will find and fix. > > Unfortunately there is no description of > what this program is supposed to do other then HISTORY which suggest that the > author is jcosentino > > Congratulations again for this excellent software. > > Tom > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
