ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (05/04/91)
From ts Fri May 3 23:12:04 1991 Subject: Re: Free v1.9 Upload To: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (T. Carl Schelin) Date: Fri, 3 May 91 23:12:04 EET DST In-Reply-To: <9105031244.AA05760@mailer.jhuapl.edu>; from "T. Carl Schelin" at May 3, 91 8:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] > Timo, > > About a month ago I posted a binary to c.b.i.p called Free v1.0 and just > recently, v1.3 came out. Since then I've received many requests for additional > information to be displayed "since I'm already doing it". > > So, here is Free v1.9 (FREE19.ZIP). The various new things that I've > incorporated are: > > * Bypasses drives that are unavailable and prints a message rather than > "Abort, Retry or Fail". > * Allows you to disable any message about non-responding drives. > * Selective checking of floppy drives A: or B:. > * Display of the drive type (network, local, substituted, vdisk, etc.). > * Added /h/? as switches to display a quick help. > * Added /n switch to disable printing the diagnostic code. > * Optionally displaying of a long version of the drive type. Drive type is > displayed as a single letter but in this area, it's displayed as the > actual full name of the drive (LAN Mgr, IBM PC LAN, SUBST'd, Local, > Bernoulli, etc.). > * Optionally displaying the sector size in bytes, cluster size in bytes and > the percentage of drive space in use in bytes. > * Finally reduced the executable back to under 10k by removing the floating > point code. Changed to: 100 - (avail / (total / 100)). It may not be > totally accurate, but it's close enough for work. > > And of course, the normal functions of the program still work: > > * Total space available on a partition. > * Total drive space partition is formatted for. > * Current drive and path of each partition. > > Free will display a drive type (4 hex digits) that explain a drive when a > questionable drive is displayed. I am requesting E-Mail from anyone describing > what system, drive, DOS version and the hex code. I will send the most current > version to anyone who sends me a new code. I noted this in the docs and within > Free. > > > Carl Schelin > tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu Thank you Carl, My fellow moderator Harri Valkama (hv@uwasa.fi) has taken care of this, and your upload is now available as /pc/diskutil/free19.zip. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun