[Coco] Need a dir -e but extended.

[Robert Gault]

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?
>
  No idea about a special DIR command. What I normally do, is save the dcheck 
work files and compare them with the actual FAT using dEd.
dcheck -m
The comparison is simple if you have two windows open with dEd running in each. 
Just flip screens and the changes are easily spotted.

Usually I can find what is wrong and make repairs. If not repairs, then I can 
remove bad files or sub-directories from a good directory and the FAT.