Date   : Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:44:55 -0600
From   : "Rick Galbraith" <rick_galbraith@...>
Subject: Re: Different DFSs

Gareth wrote in the discussion,

>Have you got any programs which can read the disk sectors directly
>
>There is a program for the PC called Anadisk which might be able to 
>let you tell if it is disk corruption or wrong filing system

I was able to build a short program to both read and write sectors,
by using the apropriate assembler commands implemented through
a CALL. The info I found in the User Guide, volume two (North American
Version had it, anyway.)

It wasn't exactly rocket science. I used it for making a copy of the
directory sectors on one side of the disc to track 0, sectors 2 and 3
on the other side of the disc.

I later found an easier way to accomplish that last task, but you 
would still need the program, which I simply called x.routine, to 
restore the x.cat files if you had a directory get corrupted.

Rick

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