zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) (05/26/91)
What is the latest version of Dave Haynie's Disksalv?
Grepping around FILES.Z from ab20 turned up dsalve1.42. This was in a
comp.binaries.amiga archive. The doc file promised a version 2.00 was
"well under way."
The reason I want this is that a friend of mine has a floppy for her
Amiga 500 that went bad. She's not a techie, so I'm not sure what's wrong
other than that she's not able to read what's in her WordPerfect files.
She's nowhere near me (100's of miles), so I want to have a full
toolkit when I try to recover stuff from her disk. So.....
What other stuff should I have ready? I've collected FixDisk V1.2 (by
Werner Guenther). Is that the most recent? Is there something else I
should have? Anything else I should know?
Dan Zerkle zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu (916) 754-0240
Amiga... Because life is too short for boring computers.daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (05/30/91)
In article <9037@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes: >What is the latest version of Dave Haynie's Disksalv? >Grepping around FILES.Z from ab20 turned up dsalve1.42. This was in a >comp.binaries.amiga archive. The doc file promised a version 2.00 was >"well under way." It still is. I haven't had time to work on it since about September. It is close fully functional, and still quite buggy. The disk recovery stuff works about 20% better than DiskSalv V1.42 or (ha! ha!) FixDisk. It also has a reasonably nice fix-in-place mode and an undelete mode. Also, it works via an Intuition interface (something like the "teaser.pic" image that comes with V1.42, only more Intuition-2.0-ish, since 2.0 has become quite finalized since I did up the first DS 2.00 user interface design (looking over at the NeXT machine we had here). >The reason I want this is that a friend of mine has a floppy for her >Amiga 500 that went bad. She's not a techie, so I'm not sure what's wrong >other than that she's not able to read what's in her WordPerfect files. >She's nowhere near me (100's of miles), so I want to have a full >toolkit when I try to recover stuff from her disk. So..... DiskSalv V1.42 can do about all that can be done to a floppy. The main point of V2.00 is an easier user interface, better hard disk and undelete support, and a few new tricks for finding things that couldn't be found before. Anyway, if I'm lucky, I'll have a chance to get back to it before next September... May you also live in interesting times -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "This is my mistake. Let me make it good." -R.E.M.