[comp.os.cpm] disk searcher

LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Herb Lin) (12/25/88)

is there any public software that will help me search through a hard
disk regardless of file structure for text and then retrieve it into a
file?  (in other words, to search through a partially trashed disk).

tnx.

wilker@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson Jr.) (12/26/88)

In article <LIN.12457038585.BABYL@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU>, LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU (Herb Lin) writes:
> is there any public software that will help me search through a hard
> disk regardless of file structure for text and then retrieve it into a
> file?  (in other words, to search through a partially trashed disk).
> 


DU (latest version 89 or so) will need a harddisk that your BIOS
talks to. It has a search command, and a command to save sectors into
a CP/M file. It's not automated, but is do-able. You can get DU from  
the Sintel-20 archives. There are various other diskzapper programs
about, but DU is a standard.