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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!EU.net!news.forth.gr!news.forth.gr!vp From: vp@nemesis.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: MSDOS Utility for reading UFS? Date: 30 Dec 1993 02:07:49 +0200 Organization: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Hellas Lines: 24 Message-ID: <vp.757209688@news.forth.gr> References: <BDC.93Dec25072257@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> <MARK_WEAVER.93Dec25230803@localhost.cs.brown.edu> <BDC.93Dec26211609@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.csi.forth.gr bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes: >In article <MARK_WEAVER.93Dec25230803@localhost.cs.brown.edu> Mark_Weaver@brown.edu writes: > In article <BDC.93Dec25072257@blackjack.ai.mit.edu> bdc@blackjack.ai.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes: > > I was wondering if anyone was ever writen a DOS utility to access Unix > > filesystems perphaps in a Norton Utilities style, to help repair ufs > > volumes from DOS when it all goes bad... currently i'm using NU to hand > Why not just have a unix boot disk with fsck on it? >beacuse sometimes fuzz-check f-sucks... If it sucks then fix the bloody thing instead of developing something entirely new that will almost certaintly have its own set of bugs and other probs. Come on be realistic, there are times when you ought to start afresh and times when you should refrain from reinventing the wheel. **vp ----------------------------------- Vassilis Prevelakis | vp@csi.forth.gr Thoukididou 10A | old style address: Plaka, Athens 105 58 | ...!mcvax!ariadne!vp GREECE | Tel. +30 1 32 32 867 | FAX +30 1 72 24 603