Hi! Recently I have noticed that our ibiblio contains "DM21"
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/dm/ which has only bare binaries inside. So I wondered what it is. Now Robert, who says I should not thank him, has found the URL http://web.archive.org/web/20070208031008/http://www.diskman.co.uk/about.aspx which gives a comprehensive answer to the question :-) DM means DISKMAN and is a (also scriptable) tool which can backup/restore LFN, quickformat FAT12/16/32, manage, read, write and mount disks, partitions and images of those, DOS and BIOS style, including a raw disk editor and some extras like CMOS backup/restore and a little bit of NTFS. Newest version would be 4.x, while we have 2.0 and 2.1 archived. Version 3 was the start of a clean-up with limited, but more stable features and 4 is quite similar to 2.1 as far as features are explained, but more clean and stable :-) The website also features a manual, a reference guide, FAQ, various examples and, in the news section, a list of known issues and planned changes. Version 4 is from 2002, while version 2 is from the year 2000. What are your thoughts on this? It SOUNDS useful to ME, so if somebody has time, they could recursively fetch a bunch of documentation from the website and throw it into an updated ZIP for ibiblio. The author hints that source code could be made available on request. While there is no address mentioned on diskman.co.uk on archive.org, the binary contains the addresses debug@... and jim@... with ... being the mentioned domain, which makes it tricky to contact the author on his gone domain: "James Clark, an electronics engineer, working for a leading UK computer manufacturer" Thanks! Regards, Eric PS: Interesting observation: The Stallman support movement seems to have >1/3 eastern supporters. Cultural difference? _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
