defragment

[Alexios Chouchoulas]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Dimitris Sagias wrote:

[...]

> Stamath, gia na mpei kapoios ston kopo kai na kanei port mia efarmogh kai 
> eidika mia closed source efarmogh pou xreiazetai reverse engineering (me liga 
> logia na mantepseis ton tropo pou douleyei kai na grapseis kwdika gia aythn) 
> prepei na yparxei kalos logos.
> Aythn thn stigmh den mporw na skeftw mia apo tis leitourgies twn norton pou 
> na einai xrhsimh gia to linux.

  Epishs, na prosthesw oti o arxikos skopos twn Norton Utilities htan na
kalypsoun "trypes" stis dynatothtes tou MS-DOS (kai argotera twn Windows)
poy yphrxan logw kakhs sxediashs tou "leitourgikou" MS-DOS [1].

  Px sta *nix den yparxei logos na exeis ena utility pou taxinomei ta
periexomena twn directories se alfabhtikh seira, giati afto to kanei to ls
(to DIR tou COMMAND.COM den to ekane [2]). To idio kai gia to caching twn
palioterwn Norton Utilities, to undelete, unformat, klp klp.

  Epipleon, opws les ki esy, an den exeis to source, den tithetai thema
porting.


> Opws 8a eides sta prohgoumena posts ta 
> filesystems pou xrhsimopoiei to linux den xreiazontai defragmentation. Kai ta 
> unices den exoun problhmata me viruses. H norton
                                          ^^^^^^^^
  Apo tote pou ton eixa dei me to Roz Poukamiso, to'ksera oti o Peter gernei
ki apo tis dyo meries. Alla pote den perimena na kanei kai allagh fylou! [3] 


> genika zei mpalwnontas tis 
> ateleies twn winblows.

  Kai tou MS-DOS prin apo ta Winblows. Kai ekane ekplhktikh douleia. O
syndyasmos MS-DOS + 4DOS + QEMM + Norton Utilities *sxedon* ekane ena DOS
box thelktiko pros kapoion Unixa. [4]


[1] ROM Monitor with Delusions of Grandeur.

[2] To DIR tou 4DOS to ekane -- poly kalo to 4DOS.

[3] Norton, Peter => aren, anthrwpos. Symantec => h (prwhn) etaireia tou
    Peter Norton.

[4] Emena mou krathse to endiaferon sto DOS gia 6 mhnes parapanw ap'oti
    eprepe. To 4DOS exei *hack value*!

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