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           UnDelete 1.02
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PRODUCT NAME
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        UnDelete v1.02


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BRIEF DESCRIPTION
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        A very fast undelete program for single files.


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AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION
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        Name:           ASWare
        Address:        t.a.v. Ekke Verheul
                        Postbus 2521
                        3000 CM  Rotterdam ; The Netherlands
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LIST PRICE
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        Public domain.


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SPECIAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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        None that I know of.  It was developed on an AmigaDOS 2.04 machine
and works fine on my AmigaDOS 1.3 A500.


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COPY PROTECTION
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        None.
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MACHINE USED FOR TESTING
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        Amiga 500, 2MB Fast RAM, 1MB Chip RAM
        A590 with 100MB Fujitsu SCSI hard drive
        Kickstart 1.2, Workbench 1.3, ARP


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INSTALLATION
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        The archive contains an Installer script.  However, I did the simple
thing and just copied the command to C: (which is what the Installer does).
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REVIEW
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        Undelete is a small (15K) CLI program that lets you undo the effects
of a Delete command.  If you've deleted the file 'myfile', just enter
'undelete myfile', and it will reappear.  You can also undelete empty
directories this way.

        I was quite amazed by the speed of this program.  Undeleting is
almost as fast as deleting.  This easily makes this program an invaluable
tool for recovering files you deleted by mistake.  It's miles better than
using a disk recovery tool which scans the disk for deleted files.

        Note that you can't undelete files in RAM:, which is quite logical.
Also, don't try to undelete a file you didn't delete.  UnDelete apparently
tries to scan the disk.  Still, it's always possible to stop it with Ctrl-C.
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DOCUMENTATION
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        It explains how to use the command and gives a list of error
messages with their meaning.  I didn't need more than this.


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LIKES
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        I love the speed and simplicity.
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DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS
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        I don't like what the program does when you undelete a file
you didn't delete.  I'd prefer a simple message that no such file was
deleted.

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        [MODERATOR'S NOTE:  I suspect this is not possible to do.  If the
        program does not scan the whole disk, how can it be 100% sure that
        the file was not deleted?  Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
        - Dan]


COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS
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        There are several programs which can undelete files, but they
usually work by scanning the disk, which takes a lot of time.  This is the
first program I've seen which can simply undelete a file.
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BUGS
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        You can't undelete a file in a partition with an odd number of
sectors.  It's a problem shared by other disk utilities (such as FixDisk),
and is apparently caused by a wrong calculation of the root block (if I
remember the net discussion correctly).


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VENDOR SUPPORT
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        I haven't contacted the author.  No e-mail address, sadly.


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WARRANTY
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        Hey, it's a PD program.
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CONCLUSIONS
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        This is a must have.  I won't give UnDelete full marks simply
because it has a bug which prevents me from using it on 2 of my 3
partitions.


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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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        Copyright 1994 Eyal Teler.  All rights reversed (hey, that's
what happens after writing a reverse compiler).

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