Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The secrets of the file system (was FillDisk) Message-ID: <2882@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 23:48:47 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2882 Posted: Tue Dec 1 23:48:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 11:47:57 EST References: <2080@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 39 in article <2080@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>, page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) says: > I noted with interest Dave Haynie's statement that a HD DiskSalv > program would not surface (from him) until around the time 1.3 came > out. He said it was because he was busy (which I don't doubt), but I > suspect another reason is he doesn't want to work on another version > when he knows it wouldn't work with the new FS, part of 1.3... Good guess, but I really am more pressed for time these days than anything else. Support for NewFS is independent of everything else anyway, as I still have to support floppies in the DOS format. Which is good for floppies anyway, as it looks more secure than the new format, even though it's slower. I've only killed my hard disk twice, but I've had quite a few floppies get clobber, coffeed, magnitized, etc. The other excuse is that I've been putting in Intuition stuff so you can run from the WorkBench, and I've speeded some things up. The problem is that there's really alot more that's just screaming to be done; feeping creaturism or whatever they call it. If only it paid a little better. But I guess there's something to be said for fame and good karma. > I thought about putting together a "Definitive Inside Look at the > AmigaDOS Filing System" but don't think it's worthwhile if we're on > the verge of a new FS. I'm not sure if things change all that much in the new system, but ya never know. At least I don't, until I tear into it. Oh, well, I hear a 68020 calling me. > ..Bob > -- > Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.edu ulowell!page > "I've never liked reality all that much, but I haven't found a > better solution." --Dave Haynie, Commodore-Amiga NOW THERE'S A WORTHWHILE QUOTE! -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The B2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "I can't relax, 'cause I'm a Boinger!"