trb@stag.UUCP (03/29/87)
[Back on the net at last!] I recently had a friend upload hdscan12.arc to the BITNET archives, so I hope it will propogate its way through to USENET. HDSCAN is a shareware program I just finished that will scan a hard disk in 2-3 seconds and basically give you capabilities similar to sweep and xtree on the PC. Along with tagging and untagging files for copying and deletion, you can tag files across all partitions of your hard disk for ARC'ing, do an immediate view of a file (binary files will be strings'ed), hex dump files, do selective searches for files or directories, run external programs (even passing the currently pointed to file to the program...the arc file has a tinylook.ttp included, so by simply pressing the F10 key, you can view a .TNY file), and more. The external program option was added at the last minute so I could quit adding features (the program was up to 42K). HDSCAN automatically reads a file key binding file for the function keys when it starts up, allowing you to assign, for example, F1 to C:\bin\tail.prg, F2 to D:\tinylook.ttp, F3 to C:\emacs.ttp, F4 to C:\util\pcommand.prg, F5 to C:\util\DCOPY17.tos, etc...you can make it into a very powerful frontend without waiting for enhancements and new versions... One bug has been found in hdscan 1.2 (I am currently on 1.21). Basically, I forgot that the stupid command tail passed in pexec is a pascal string (i.e. the first element of the string must contain the length of the tail.) This was fixed in the portion of the code that passes all the tagged files to the 'Add tagged files to arc file' option, but not if you try to pass too long a path to an external program (i.e. try to tinylook a file in D:\PICTURES\GOODSTUF\TINY and it probably won't get the full path. The actual length limit is 32...guess what the first character in my command string was...) Blame this on my never using long path names on my hard disk (the limit in 1.21 is a 127 char tail.) -Todd Burkey (..meccts!zeke!stag!trb) (BBS: 612-542-8980 late evenings are safest) will eventually have UNAX up and get rid of the PC...
poirot@inria.UUCP (04/06/87)
Todd,
Excuses me for writing to you via the net, but i'm not able to reach you
directly.
I tried to use HDSCAN (1.121) posted recently on comp.sys.atari.st. I dont
remember exactly the date of the posting but it was near 04/04/87. This
posting was in 3parts (2 for the program, 1 for utilitys..).
When i edit the program, i notice that there was not any ~ (tilde) chars.
But spaces were replaced by `. So i dont do any modification and after having
concatenate the 2 parts, go to transfer it to the ST (via kermit). Then i
uudecode it , using Dumas uudecode, with no errors, and finally de-arc it
with no problem too.
I do the same job with hdrs_othr.arc succefully.
So i double click on HDSCAN12.PRG. The main screen came right. The ? prompt
was blinking. And then the problem appeared: I typed A (i tried either B
and N with the same results). The program began to "access" drive A, and
then "access" Hard disk (access light blinking) and then a screen appeared
full of garbage (like if you try neochrome on a mono screen). The program
continue accessing the Hard disk during 3 or 4 seconds (My god, what can it
do ??),and finally the system go blocked (no bombs).
RESET.
So, is it the posting that it 's bad ? Or can i try replace ` by spaces ??
Have you already got the problem ? Help needed. In the seeing of the main
screen , it seems to be a very useful program, i want need it...
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