ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (01/03/91)
Thu 3-Jan-90: I received /pc/pd2/showf241.zip directly from the author, Duncan Murdoch. This is one of my shareware favorites. It shows a map of the disk. How the files are located, what is in them, and so on. You can even see what is in deleted, or unused parts of the disk. (Coupled with a screen capture program you might even retrieve e.g. lost text). You see the state of the disk's fragmentation, and can assess the results of defragmentators. And so on. A very powerful and versatile program. An extract from Duncan's documentation: SHOWFAT graphically displays the physical layout of the files on your disk. I use it for several things. First and foremost, it's a tool that lets me look at my disk and satisfy my curiosity about what's going on in there. It's easy to see when the disk is getting badly fragmented and needs to be run through an optimizer; it's also handy in a multitasker like Desqview, to watch the results of programs that are writing long output files but haven't closed them; it's sometimes helpful when automatic unerase utilities can't successfully retrieve a lost file. Version 2.41 does a CHKDSK-style integrity check on the disk, and reports errors in a slightly more friendly format. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun