[Coco] Recovering files

[Bob Devries]

My apologies.
It is indeed OS9 I'm interested in. I rarely run anything else these days 
(on the coco that is).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Recovering files


> Bob Devries wrote:
>> Is there a utility that will show me the sectors (clusters) which are 
>> allocated to a file, or will I need to write that myself?
>>
>> While I'm about it, is there a coco OS9 programme similar to the OS9/68K 
>> "CFP", which takes wilcard input, and applies it to a command line you 
>> specify, especially for programmes which don't handle multiple command 
>> line parameters (like for instance, deldir), and outputs a single command 
>> line per wildcard match? (Did I explain that sufficiently?)
>>
>>
>
> You have not specified for which Coco OS. If you are attempting to track a 
> file in OS-9, use dEd. It won't automatically give you the requested 
> information but with the tech section of the manual will permit display of 
> the needed disk sectors.
>
> I sell a raw disk editor for Disk Basic which looks and feels much like 
> dEd. It will link to a file, follow the FAT, and display only those 
> sectors assigned to the file. However, the best use per your question is 
> that described above. Use the tech information for Disk Basic disk 
> structure along with the program to repair the FAT table in T17S2.
>
> My guess is you are just interested in OS-9. It should not be too 
> difficult to write a program to open a directory, find the required file, 
> read the directory entry, and trace the file descriptor links while 
> compiling a table of data.
>
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