[Coco] Need a dir -e but extended.

[Richard E. Crislip]

On Tuesday 21 December 2010 20:30:04 gene heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 08:28:51 pm Richard E. Crislip did opine:
> > On Tuesday 21 December 2010 15:12:53 gene heskett wrote:
> > > Greetings;
> > > 
> > > I have a bad fd sector that is making dcheck bail out.
> > > 
> > > It is reporting a sector error for a sector that is not even on the
> > > disk, so its obvious I have a contaminated FD sector, but a few hours
> > > of doing dir -e's here and there looking for a bogus list, I have not
> > > found it yet.
> > > 
> > > A decade or more back, we had a disk or file utility that worked
> > > something like a dir -e does now, but where a dir -e only gets the
> > > location of that filenames fd sector and reports that as the files
> > > address, it read and decoded the rest of that sector to show where
> > > each piece of the file was located on the disk, and also the size of
> > > the file from that FD, this utility returned a complete list of all
> > > the allocated sectors and the size of each allocation.  So it showed
> > > the offset and size of every segment of a files fd sector.  But I
> > > don't recall the name of the thing and nothing I see on that
> > > Seagate's various cmds dirs (there are several) rings even a teeny
> > > little bell.
> > > 
> > > Can someone refresh my memory?  Please?
> > 
> > Hi Gene,
> > 
> > The last time I did anything like that was with a RSDOS program called
> > CoCoZap. It displayed a graphical picture of what it found on the disk
> > and, after studying the patterns one could discern the bad areas and
> > make changes that would allow the dist to at least be read. I do
> > remember trying iton an OS-9 disk, and for sure I did not try it on an
> > Nitros-9 disk 8-).
> > 
> > Richard
> 
> This is os9/nitros9, and there is no resemblance between the file
> structures on the disk.

You're probably correct, but I remember it as being a raw data reader, didn't 
care about filesystems.

Richard