(Current version is: 10.1, released 1-Januari-2010)

10.1, Minor release with optimizations for the bootable USB stick and some fixes

• 502G disk Made this an 'informational' message on OS/2
• AUX mode Add warning popup if AUX mode is activated
• Bootable CD/Diskette added info on SATA legacy mode
• FDISK menu Prestore dialog added comment on restore types
• FORMAT FAT Fixed system label to contain 10.x (use VLABEL)
• MBR code Recognize PendriveLinux Multi-ISO boot from USB
• MBR NTsig Changed default to DF5ee100, eye catcher value
• MENU Format: avoid find 2nd FAT area (very slow!)
• SCAN Fix reported count when error-strategy is 'quit'
• SCAN menu Force '-E:i' to always retry with single sector
• STORE Use A/B instead of 1/2 as store identification
• Sw -dir EXE startup switch, file directory (scripts, key)
• Sw -screen Linux EXE switch, force screen size like 112x39
• USB-stick Run bootable DFSee ISO from USB stick using GRUB4DOS
• USB-stick Run Linux DFSee from PartedMagic ISO, on KDE desktop

10.0, Major release with fixes, updates and improvements, bootable CD/diskette update

• 502G disk OS/2 warning if disk > 502 GiB normal limit
• 64K warn OS/2 or eCS incompatible with > 64K cylinders
• A sn size Fixed multi sector ASCII display output format
• CD/FLOPPY Choice between 28 or 50 lines display at startup
• CD/FLOPPY FreeDOS updated to latest kernel/command.com
• CD/FLOPPY New IDE driver, XMS manager and ramdisk updated
• CD/FLOPPY Optional load of (Iomega) FireWire driver added
• CDROM boot fixed availability of HPFS/JFS/NTFS-LDR images
• CHS warn No CHS warnings if #sects > 63 (eCS > 500Gb)
• CLONE Added 'reboot' advisory popup after completion
• CR No size adjust primary, if not at MBR track
• CR Align to cyl-start if prev END is not aligned
• CSLIST -s Add cylinder-aligned sectors to sector-list
• DFSDOS VOL Fixed size/freespace for drives > 2Gb, filedialogs
• FAT Fixed display bugs with just one FAT area
• HEX dump Default size full sector if display >= 40 lines
• JFS super Always warn for superblocks/part size mismatch
• KEY Support major versions over 9 in key checks
• LIST Export/Import preserves list display format
• LIST Export/Import store/display drive/disk/part
• Menu Mode=Fdisk -> Wipe (EBR) TRACK-1 reserved sectors
• Menu Edit->Settings->Status prompt after each command
• PART view Show decimal size in sectors if no LVM/BMGR
• PART -s -u Show Linux UUID value for native filesystems
• PART -v Show Linux UUID value for native filesystems
• PART -xml Show Linux UUID value for native filesystems
• PART pid Show Linux UUID value for native filesystems
• PTE No 'smart' field updates when type set to 0
• RESIZE and EXPAND added '?' and '-?' help on command
• SCAN Fix progress reporting when not at LSN 0
• SCRIPT Fixed BREAK from FOR loop, break just one level
• WARNING Linux device-nr too large, only for nr > 63
• WARNING Type 0F extended container, made a minor warning

9.15, Image restore and binary file editor improvements, FAT large sector support

• CD-boot and diskette, ramdisk now 12Mb, boots on 16Mb machine
• DFSxFSx Analysis scripts support current object (large-floppy)
• EDIT Binary file, allow spaces in path+filename
• EDIT "File in Binary Editor", textual menu change
• EDIT Hex file, used item size based on screen width
• EDIT Max nr of bytes/row to 133 in HEX editor
• EDIT Fix trap with > 50 bytes/row in hex editor
• FAT Fix open/format traps with 2048 byte sectors
• FORMAT Support 2048 byte sectors (FAT filesystems)
• MENU File, open object, Freespace area as logical
• RECOVER Warning to use ANOTHER partition as destination
• RESTORE partition info, extra confirmation when no prompts
• RESTORE Show restored size/offset with -S option
• RESTORE Fixed restore of .IMG file with -S option
• RESTORE Fixed restore to 'corrupt' (NTFS) partition
• SAVETO Warning to use ANOTHER partition as destination
• SCREEN Support screen/window sizes up to 500 columns

9.14, A few bug-fixes, longer evaluation period

• RESIZE Fix 'ACTIVE' flag lost on expand (again)
• ntsign Added -query and -v display options
• Profile Correctly execute from path with spaces
• MBR id Recognize 'Symantec/Norton Partition Magic'
• PART -V Fixed display of HPFS spare sector (0x11)

9.13, A few bug-fixes, usability fixes and new SCRIPT functions

• COPY No change part-type to HIDDEN (multiple visible prim)
• GENPART Use explicit HEX partition-type in the script
• HELP Added Partition Type help chapter in Help menu
• LVM dlg Updated help for driveletters and 'sync LVM'
• MENU Fixed 'filename with spaces' issues for IM etc
• MOVE Display overview as a table, not as a 'map'
• MOVE Make MOVE/COPY commands use explicit HEX type
• MOVE No change part-type to HIDDEN (multiple visible prim)
• PART Fixed freespace line formatting for Linux and MAC
• PART Partition type 0xBC (acronis-ZS) recognized
• PART Partition type 0xBF (Solaris ZFS) recognized
• Profile template is now 'proftemp.dfs' user: profile.dfs
• RESIZE No change part-type to HIDDEN (multiple visible prim)
• SCRIPT Added fileselect(), filesaveas() and dirselect()

9.12, Fixed some menu-items/dialogs to use explicit HEX values

• DIALOGS image, restore, clone, create-partition; use explicit HEX
• IKEYxxx Changed to be a generic template replacement utility
• MENU Make 'change partitiontype' use explicit HEX numbers
• NTSIGN Changed parameter to be decimal by default, not hex
• PART Make labels (-b-) the default for Linux and MAC too
• PROFILE Default (empty) profile.dfs made part of distribution
• SCRIPT Fix broken function-name parsing in ver 9.11
• SERIAL Changed parameter to be decimal by default, not hex
• SET Help text on 'set radix' or 'set radix -?' improved
• TYPE Set 'class' of 2nd parameter to be a partition-type

9.11, Updates and more documentation for scripting, some bugfixes

• DOC Added much more native script info to dfscript.txt
• JFS Minor textual update in filefind dialog text
• MENU 'Find and Recover ONE file' for HPFS/NTFS/JFS
• MENU Add help on SCRIPT flow-control and layout
• MENU Add help on built-in functions and variables
• MENU Added/Moved 'Find ONE file/dir' by full path
• Numbers Allow hex/dec/octal on most parameter values
• Numbers Changed default radix for ALL values to DECIMAL
• RUN Help on flow-control, functions and variables
• SCRIPT Implemented lazy evaluation on OR, AND, ||, &&
• SCRIPT Add control-structure help text function
• SCRIPT Fixed bug in STREQ and related operators
• SCRIPT Added BREAK and CONTINUE loop controls
• SCRIPT Added pragma and built-in function help
• SCRIPT Fixed parameter bug in left() and right()

9.10, Minor update; upto 24 disks in Linux, some message updates

• FAT FS Hint to use FORMAT when bootsector is empty
• MEDIA Allow up to 24 IDE/SCSI disk on Linux (hdX/sdX)
• PART Added details to 'invalid partition table nr'
• SETBOOT Allow colon on /IBD:C: syntax

9.09, Fix for create type 0x35 (JFS) volume and new 'set version' for JFS

• CR Create a valid new BBR on type 0x35 for 'create NEW'
• SBVER Command for JFS, set JFS version (to OS/2 or Linux)
• Mode=JFS menu, added item to set JFS filesystem version

9.08, Minor fixes, and a few additions to the help

• CR Clear BBR on type 0x35 for 'create NEW mode'
• IMAGE Added warning on using SMART with recovery to help
• RESIZE Added 'limitations' to help, supported FS
• RESTORE Added informational REBOOT message popup at end

9.07, Variable substitution updates and more QUERY options, small fixes

• DFSDISK Generate full disk-overview in XML format too (.RDF file)
• LVMsync Fixed close-all-disks before calling the LVM engine (sync LVM, OS2)
• OS2-EXE Supports using IBM BLDLEVEL to get version info (when NOT compressed)
• PART Changed 0x12 type description to 'Recovery' to make it more generic
• QUERY DR/PR option tests for removable disk/partition (on WIN or OS2 only)
• QUERY DY option tests for 'large floppy format' disk property
• Resolve variables, '$$' in expression resolves to '$' value (escape single $)
• SET VAR command, switch $var substitution in commands completely ON or OFF
• SLT dlg Minor textual update to cancel-SLT build popup dialog
• Sw: -$- EXE startup switch, start with $var substitution in commands set OFF

9.06, Bug fix release, fixes traps in the OS/2 version with 9.05

• TxWin Added double-buffering to reading VIO screen (traps)
• defaults Set bad-sector retries to be -A:1 (was 5)
• warnings Duplicate driveletters, extra text for WIN

9.05, Bug fix release, OS/2 2Tb disks and fine tuning of advanced scripting

• cmdline Fix syntax error on single '$' characters (9.03/9.04)
• disk R/W Allow OS2 physical disk handle-value ZERO (TSHELL)
• format Added a warning about 'large floppy' FAT32 on OS/2
• geocalc Allow sectors/track upto 255 (DANIS506, 2 TiB disks)
• list Fixed decimal value shown for very large values
• menu Show error 'item currently disabled' on mouseclick too
• menubar Add application version to right side of menubar
• menu run Allow DFSee quit from script ran from the menu
• part Add warnings about 'large floppy' FAT32 on OS/2
• quit Do not exit with the value DFS_QUIT as rc (make it 0)
• run Abort script run when parameter prompt is canceled
• script Quit script (and DFSee) on application 'q' command

9.04, Bug fix release, and additions to the new scripting engine

• CR menu Fixed enable/disable of CR/BM-install menu items
• FileDlg Fix directory read for DOS version (Watcom 1.7 bug!)
• Geocalc Ignore deleted (type 00) partitions in MBR tables
• LVM Set correct drive-link seq-nr (P#1262, Mantis 1572)
• LVM -c Fix drive-link sequence numbers that are ZERO
• Menu Edit -> Set Geometry contents based, toggle 'geocalc'
• PART xml Add specific warning for LVM sequence-nr ZERO
• SCRIPT Implemented error ignore/quit/confirm logic
• SCRIPT Implemented setting $_rc system variable on commands
• SET geo Set 'geocalc' disk contents based geometry ON or OFF

9.03, Bug fix release, plus pre-release of the new enhanced scripting engine

• CLONE pri-to-pri, fix automatic FIXPBR 'to' part
• CMDLINE Allow input of <> when not at start cmdline
• CMDLINE Implemented DFSee host variables $_name
• CMDLINE Support $variable and {expression} evaluation
• JFS -v More info on damaged Inode with startup switch -p
• LIST -c Fixed incorrect leading '-l-' option
• MENU JFS fixboot, driveletter prompt for bootable JFS
• RESIZE Fixed 'ACTIVE' flag being lost on expand
• SCRIPT Support named local variables in scripts (perl like)
• SCRIPT Support expressions and builtin functions (perl like)
• SCRIPT Support IF/THEN/ELSEIF/ELSE, WHILE, UNTIL and FOR
• SCRIPT Allow direct disk-read using $_h_sector[secnr]
• SCRIPT Added comma-operator to expressions (for loops)
• SCRIPT Added tree-based parsing and linenr error reporting
• SCRIPT Do not execute lines resolving to empty string
• SCRIPT Fix empty string variables like $_p_label

9.02, Bug fix release, plus wipe of first track and static HTML documentation generator

• ABOUT Updated registration key text for temporary keys
• CLEANUP Add reset ACTIVE flag for logicals, rework code
• CREATE Fix type freespace on create log between primaries
• FIXBOOT Fixed missing bytes for FAT32 with Win9x bootcode
• FSTYPE 0x27 for IFShidden, like VISTA pre-install image
• MBR Added Windows Vista MBR recognition for display
• MENU Add 'wipe first disk track' (except MBR/LVM sectors)
• MENU Disable Bootmanager items if BMGR is not present
• MENU2HTML -h option generates static HTML pages, not PHP
• NTFS next-lsn preserved on auto-display related MFT
• OUTPUT Added 'underscore' separator line after each command
• PART -xml added 'beyondenddisk' warning property to XML
• SWITCH -skipfs:fs startup switch, skips Fs on partition listing

9.01, Bug fix release: 'move to begin freespace', new Bootmanager install and PHP documentation generator

• Alloc Added 'alloc map, F9, to Reiser and EXT2+3 menus
• Clone Avoid 2nd dialog after clone size warning popup
• Create menu, removed inaccessible disks from freespace lists
• Create Add 'BJFS' for a bootable JFS partition type 0x07
• Help Several minor updates to various help pages
• Menu Bootmanager Install, item added to "Mode=FDISK" menu
• Menu/Dlg Partition selection lists, skip empty disks
• Menu2html creates (PHP) documentation for active pulldown menu
• Mode=FAT Improved FAT filerecovery search options handling
• Move Fix MOVE to begin freespace, fail to clone (smart)
• PART Dont close default store when 'large-floppy' present
• Unmount From the File menu, allow unmounting 'dummy' disks too

9.00, Major release! Geometry sniffing, more EXT2/3 and ReiserFS support, x86 disassembler built in, and much more!

• APMAP Show Apple-Partion-MAP in first track when present
• BMFIX BMGR, default to NO I13X check, allow GRUB/Win MBR
• DARWIN First port for MAC OS X 'terminal' using GCC 4.x
• DFSIMAGE CMD/BAT, added a 'raw' parameter for image creation
• DIRTY Update menu-item enable/disable after changing status
• EBR Show classic IBM Bootmanager menu name in display
• EDIT Disassembler on F2 or '-d'; Jump, Save, set origin
• EXT2/3 Added more info to the superblock display
• EXT2/3 Add group descriptor strcuture read & display
• EXT2/3 Area aware allocation logic (disk-level smart)
• EXT2/3 Allocation bitmap logic; alloc, smart image/clone
• Edit -> BMGR items moved to 'Fdisk -> OS/2 LVM and Bootmanager'
• EDIT Limit HEXED marked-area to a single object (sector)
• FAT12 Fix wrong output on large clusters/small filesystem
• FILEFIND Dialog, add 'search from current sector' checkbox
• FIXBOOT Driveletter prompt dialog in JFS/HPFS menu selection
• FIXBOOT HPFS, default to NO I13X check, allow GRUB/Win MBR
• FIXBOOT Retain (boot) letter on JFS/HPFS when already there
• Geocalc Add LVM DLAT disksize versus OS disksize sanity check
• Geocalc Contents based geometry determination (sniffing)
• Grub Display summary or details (0 -v) on GRUB MBR sectors
• Grub Display details on GRUB bootsectors, incl boot device
• Grub Display details from stage 1.5 or stage 2 data sectors
• Grub Identify GRUB/LILO non-MBR sectors correct on display
• HPFS id Fixed false 'alloc sector' identification empty sector
• JFS Better sanity check on IAG filesystem structure data
• LVM -n Fix trap when BootDiskId is not set yet for a disk
• Linux Recognize JFS FS in 0x83 partition as well as 0x35
• Linux Recognize JFS filesystem in 0x83 Linux partition
• LinuxLVM Added type 0x87 to CR and change-type selection lists
• MENU Made 'Bootmanager menu Add' generic LVM/non-LVM
• MENU Updated bmfix menu wording, added I13X to help text
• Mode=HFS in menu, recognition in PART display, limited support
• Mode=XFS in menu, recognition in PART display, limited support
• OS-cmds Allow external cmds on DOS/OS2 only (security issue)
• PART Display GRUB summary on -v and -q, if GRUB present
• PART Fixed trap on a garbage IBM bootmanager BMP sector
• PART Improved rounding of MiB size values to be exact
• PART -b Add 'related' column for Creator info or Linux ldr
• PART -b- Added label info for EXT2/3 and Reiser filesystems
• READ Allow read outside a partition (GRUB stage2, LVM etc)
• REISER Implemented allocation map display and smart imaging
• RESIZE Enable menus for FAT/HPFS/NTFS only, not EXT2/RSR
• RESTORE (verify) updated confirmation text for readability
• RESTORE Fix spurious CHS popup after completion of restore
• SCRIPT Minor fix for script set-parameter using prompt text
• SERIAL Improved batchmode use and wording of popup text
• SWAP New mode, allows smart disk imaging skipping the SWAP
• SWAP Identify Linux swapspace type1 and type2-v0 or -v1
• Switches Interpret -x123 as a longname, not a value: -x:123
• TERM Recognize RXVT terminal string as Xterm compatible
• TRACE Set cyclic trace to create 9 files, in File menu
• VCU Fixed for empty disks, and disks with logicals only
• VIRT createdd from a .PDx, does auto restore of .IMx file
• WARNING For sda/hda devicenumber too large (libATA and SCSI)
• warnings Surpress disk-warnings too on -w- 'part' option
• warnings Toned down the 'HiddenSectors' warning text a bit
• warnings made aware of DFSee I13X patches for BMGR and MBR

8.17, Bug fix release; 'Move to BEGIN freespace' bug back-ported from 9.01

• Menu 'Move to BEGIN freespace', fails on overlapping areas with 'smart' option

8.16, Bug fix release; expand logical and disk-to-disk clone fat corruption fixed

• CR Fix (non-lvm) IBM BootManager LSN string syntax in EBR sectors
• CLONE Fixed disk-to-disk smart clone cluster-skip bug on FAT filesystems
• EDIT hex Only use 32-byte wide startup screenwith at 140 colums or more
• RESIZE Fixed expanding a LOGICAL resulting in bad alignment (unformatted)
• SCAN New -skipbads option for quick scans, default skipping 1 MiB

8.15, Better JFS analysis and display (IAG), REPEAT command and some small fixes and enhancements

• CR -G:n Set GAP between p-table and bootsector for a logical
• DFSTART Fixed check on (now obsolete) DFSDISK.DFS script file
• EDIT Fix initial off-screen cursor when cursor not at start
• IAG New command to display IAG summary and detail overview
• ICONS Generic DFSee icon same for Linux, Windows and OS/2
• JFS Add IAG automatic structure identify and display
• JFS open Show more information on corrupt IAG data structures
• LVM dlg Use F2/F5/F8 to HEX edit LVM DLAT, bootsector and BBR
• MENU Add IAG structure display items, overview and detail
• PART Recognize an empty MBR with Linux GRUB correctly
• PTE dlg Use F2/F5/F8 to HEX edit p-table sector and bootsector
• REPEAT Repeat any DFSee command, forever or specified number

8.14, PTE table sorting, Hex-edit updates, PART warnings added and enhanced, several bug fixes

• DFSCHECK add Reiser and Ext2/3 filesystems analysis scripts
• Dist-ZIP add 'versionX.YY' file for quick version checking
• Filename in dialogs, preserve single-quotes, allow "Log's"
• Hex-edit Alt-E, Alt-J, Alt-K, Alt-S for cursor related marks
• Hex-edit Add Alt-1 .. Alt-0 for 1..10 byte sized mark areas
• Hex-edit Add Alt-R reverses bytes in mark (endian correction)
• Hex-edit Add Alt-C for copy data, Alt-M for copy and move mark
• Hex-edit Allow paste HEX-data from clipboard on a single line
• LVM Dlg Allow setting of driveletter '*' for 'auto assign'
• LVMSHOW fixed for showing info for partition on other disk
• MENU File > Open Volume inform when object is a partition
• Mouse Make right button available for OS (clipboard etc)
• PART -w Warn on primary partition inside EXTended container
• PART -w Explain 'Obsolete entry X' in LVM DLAT, run 'LVM -c'
• PART -w Reword GPT/EFI warning, incl iMAC, allow total remove
• PART -w Warning when I13X BMGR present, but no I13X MBR code
• PTE Dlg Custom sort order fields + button, to allow any order
• RESIZE Fix maximum size displayed for FAT in expand dialog
• RESIZE Keep exact start-sector for non-aligned partitions

8.13, More verbose registration key info, fix search for FAT filenames, fix MOVE/COPY to start of disk

• BOOTINI On FAT(32), search for the correct (ASCII) filename now
• CLONE Reword the error message on opening a non-formatted TO store
• CLONE Reword warning on time-to-complete, hint at status line info
• COPY and MOVE, fix offset for the first primary on a disk (Cylinder 0)
• CR/LVM No clear of the BBR (LVM sig) area for a 'create new' type 35
• FILEFIND on FAT, fixed incorrect matching on directory and file names
• FORMAT Use 1-sector buffer on quick-format (avoiding a rare USB bug)
• JFS Fixed crash displaying a garbage filled superblock sector
• LVMSHOW fix display of the LVM information for a specific partition
• MENU Add menu items for MBR code save/restore using RAW images
• MENU Add item: Display -> LVM info for partition(s); show DLAT/BBR
• MENU Add item: File -> Open Part/Volume verbose for more information
• OS2 I/O Fix Ioctl TrackLayout parameter size (is cosmetic only)
• REGKEY Verbose identification and status display (shows expiration)
• SUPER 2 JFS, display secondary superblock with the 'super 2' command

8.12, Menu additions, display enhancements, (NTFS) resizing refinements and several small fixes

• CD Display current working directory without an error
• CHECK NTFS, fix alloc error messages on split-tree DIR
• CR dlg Fix size=1 sticking after a BMGR partition is made
• FORMAT Use drive locking during format (on OS2 and Windows)
• LOCK Support lock-by-driveletter for large floppy format
• LVM dlg Update of driveletters works again (bug in 8.11)
• MAP Fixed display of driveletter line with 'map * +'
• MENU Display -> Other partition views; fixed, better help
• MENU Mode=FDISK -> Set Partition -> Not active, clear flag
• NTFS Recognize Windows Vista NTLDR sectors (named BOOTMGR)
• PART LVM column aligned if > 98 cols, using max 114 cols
• PART -b Align freespace lines for Linux in its default table
• RESIZE Allow '*' for default/maximum size in the dialog
• RESIZE NTFS, avoid empty bitmap extent on expanding the FS
• RESIZE NTFS, avoid extra bitmap flushing after updating it
• STORE Better (user) understandable store description texts
• WIPE -V Perform an all-sector verify by reading back all sectors

8.11, Better 'removable' and 'large floppy' handling, creation of LVM/JFS volumes, many small fixes and enhancements

• BOOTSECT enhanced display, BPB-Geo/dsk L-geo, JFS bootcode
• DESKTOP Fixed auto resize on startup, using MODE command
• DISK Switch to Mode=xxFS on large-floppy-format disks
• FORMAT + FIXBOOT support Veit Kannegieser's OS2LDR.SEK code
• IMAGE Dialog, fix empty 'start' value messing up command
• LVM Create LVM signature area for LVM/JFS partition types
• LVM Surpress 'BAD' warning on fakeEBR display (fixed Geo)
• LVM dlg Allow empty Vol/Part/Letter fields to mean delete
• LVMsync Change default to NO synchronize to avoid problems
• MAP Show PRM & large-floppy 'removable' status when known
• MAP Show large-floppy: FS-format, label, driveletter
• MAP -m Reworded int13 limit message line for more clarity
• MENU Actions -> Format with FAT filesystem -> new submenu
• MENU Actions -> Format ... -> Current, OS2LDR Large Floppy
• MENU Remove mode=FDISK menu duplicate 'D' accelerator key
• MENU Exclude removables from 'Boot using IBM Bootmanager'
• PART Switch to Mode=xxFS based Part-type for non-formatted
• PART Added disk-level warning 'large floppy' format
• PART Added table footer with '>' status character legenda
• PART Show large floppy: FS-format, label, driveletter
• PART -n Fix table header on Linux default (or part -n -b)
• PART/MAP Implement removable detection (like USB) for Windows
• RESIZE Fix crash in resize of FAT32 filesystems (8.09/8.10)
• RESTORE Dialog, fix empty 'start' value messing up command
• RESTORE Fixed display of the buffersize for uncompressed .img
• SETBOOT Add removable indicator (for not bootable) when known
• SETBOOT Display the (LVM) driveletter and filesystem on -list

8.10, Fix MBR corruption by FIXEXT command, report duplicate bootsectors, allow any size sectors

• FILEFIND Fix crash mode=FDISK, on several (in FDISK mode) unsupported commands
• FIXEXT Fix MBR corruption, resulting in empty partition tables! (8.09 only)
• JFS Updated fixboot/dfsjfldr template code to match eCS 2.0 beta3 level
• MENU Display a notification popup when a disabled menu-item is selected
• PART Fixed buffersize bug in CorrelateDriveLetters (causing a crash)
• PART Show both letters, and a WARNING on duplicate driveletters (clone)
• RESTORE Fix incorrectly reported image size on start other than sector zero
• SECTORS Allow sectors larger than the standard 512 bytes, tested upto 4Kb now

8.09, Change volume serial number, delete from BM menu, menu updates and variable sectorsize support

• BUFFERS Changed ALL code to use variable sectorsize (like 4Kb)
• DFSCHECK Increased imz size to 600 sectors (2*FAT+ROOT)
• FAT INIT Detect corrupted 'EA DATA .SF' data files at init
• FILEFIND -a option, to find any/all files, deleted and normal
• FIXBOOT JFS, fixed label for bootable JFS (was 'footable':-)
• FS MENU Added selection for any/all filefind HPFS,NTFS,JFS
• FS MENU Change volume serial number in 'Boot area fix/update'
• LVM MENU BMGR menu delete removes obsolete '--> LVM' string too
• LVM MENU Explicit menu item 'Bootmanager menu Delete'
• MENU JFS text now 'Unmounted & Clean' for consistency
• PART BSIZE buffers allow 2 4Kb sectors, fix 'GPT' crash
• PART -b Linux style table with start/end and size in blocks
• RESTORE Dialog and -S option use start-sector from IMZ hdr
• SERIAL Change volume serial nr on FAT(32), HPFS, JFS and NTFS

8.08, Reset bad-sector administration, backward link warnings, SORT partition table and bugfixes

• DFSDISK Fixed disk-selection in script after 'setboot'
• FAT FS Fix to use first FAT area by default, not second
• FINDROOT NTFS, fixed trap on random data in some sectors
• IMAGE -P Fixed incorrect default size to image (read errors)
• LVMREDO Added to the list of 'known fdisk' commands
• MENU FAT, HPFS and NTFS add 'Reset bad sectors' selection
• MENU Removed obsolete 'F9' from 'Disk and Media' menu item
• NOBADS HPFS, reset the bad-sector-list to an empty state
• NOBADS NTFS, reset $BadClus and $BitMap, to NO bad sectors
• NOBADS Reset clusters marked as 'BAD' in both FAT areas
• NTSIGN Added command description and usage on '-?'
• NTSIGN Fixed confirmation for non-windowed interactive use
• PART Add explicit warnings/errors on EBR BACKWARD/LOOP
• PART dr Allow partition selection for '-c' style LVM letters
• PART-xml Add flag1/2 value, fixpbr/chs hints, installable flag
• PTE 'SORT' button sorts table on the start sectornumber
• QUERY PN returns 1 when partition has valid LVM information
• QUERY DN/DX returns #partitions with/without LVM info on disk

8.07, JFS/NTFS file recovery improvements, move/copy confirmations and some bug fixes

• CHECK JFS/HPFS recursion guard added to prevent crashes
• CLONE Ignore FS-damage on opening destination partition
• DFSMKOBJ CMD creates the OS/2 or eCS desktop folder for DFSee
• EDIT Fix replacement-edit in FDISK mode (from scripts)
• FIXBOOT NTFS, use calculated default for MFTcopy sectornr
• MOVE and COPY, added extra 'may take very long' warning
• MOVE and COPY, added specific abort-confirmation in CLONE
• PART-xml Generate XML partition overview to file or stdout
• RECOVER JFS/NTFS file recovery preserves file timestamps
• Screen 7-bit ASCII output default on Linux (unless -7-)

8.06, Enhancements for binary-file editing, updates for LVM 14.105 and some fixes

• DFSCHECK CMD/BAT now do ALL partitions if no parameter given
• DFSEDIT CMD/BAT as a quick 'binary-edit filename' solution
• DFSDISK Fix a minor BBR drivelink display error (VRAID :-)
• FreeDOS Bootmenu selection timeout extended to 30 seconds
• EDIT Highlight search-result location using marked area
• EDIT Add byte/line MARKED area in hex-edit (Alt-B/L/U)
• EDIT Erase now Alt-F (Fill), on MARKED area or whole item
• EDIT fn Add delete to end-of-file (Ctrl-D) on editing files
• EDIT fn Message popup is specified file does not exist
• EDIT fn Confirm file truncation (deleted bytes) at exit
• EDIT fn Insert/Delete single bytes at end of the file
• JFS LIST Fix 'list -f' trap on check EA on some deleted files
• MBR/EBR Highlight partition-table bytes in the hex-editor
• MBR/PART Recognize and handle MBR sector for LVM level 14.105
• PART Fix I13X recognition new LVM MBR code (level 14.105)

8.05, Fixed crash in DFSDISK/PSAVE, fix IMZ2RAW and added 'Smart' checkbox to MOVE dialog

• PSAVE Fixed CRASH in OS/2, Win and Linux version (DFSDISK)
• IMZ2RAW Fixed write-error when expanding the RAW imagefile
• MOVE and COPY, added 'Smart' checkbox to dialog, default on

8.04, Direct binary file edit, speedup filefind/undelete, improved bad-sector cloning

• CLONE Added -skipbads:nnn option, fast bad-sector cloning
• CLONE Reset active store on Escape or a failure too, to avoid confusion!
• CLONE/IM Show number of bad-sectors in the progress status line too
• EDIT Add Ctrl-E to erase whole edited item (sector) to a hex value or 0
• EDIT fn Load 'filename' in the HEX/ASCII binary sector editor window
• FAT FS Detect unmapped clusters versus inconsistent bootsector size
• FILEFIND FAT, fixed finding files with extensions like *.c
• FILEFIND menu dialog, new 'verbose' checkbox, default is FAST, quiet search
• FILIFIND NTFS, speedup MFT-record search by stepping 2 sectors per record
• FIND Speedstep mode using -i:n option, skip n sectors per find step
• FIND dlg Add 'Step' field for the -i:Speedstep option in the find dialog
• FIXBOOT FAT, added bootcode type 'W = Win-9x on FAT16' for Windows-98
• FIXBOOT NTFS create record from template if no spare one available
• FIXPBR Disallow FIXPBR command in FDISK mode for safety (clears MBR!)
• FS FAT Fixed trap switching to FAT if the bootsector was a valid NTFS one
• IMAGE Exact image filesize is kept the same on writing the binary file
• MENU Added 'reselect disk' to FS-specific menus; Select partition to FDISK
• MENU Reworded NEWMBR submenu text for clarity, better style :-)
• MENU Added: 'Edit -> File, Binary edit' to edit (binary) files directly
• Menu Edit always starts with 1-sector items by default, not clustersize
• PART Reworded cylinder-alignment warning messages for clarity
• PART Pick-up correct FAT32 label from the root directory
• PART WARNING on LVM/JFS type 0x35 with DLAT but no BBR info sector
• PSAVE Include any unformatted bootsectors in the .PDx file too
• RESIZE FAT, fixed maximum size allowed in the dialog in some cases
• SLT Faster fileinfo on JFS/NTFS/HPFS, no allocation check done
• STARTUP No 'GETDEVICEPARAMS failed' messages anymore, on inaccessible drives
• STORE Fixed store-nr display: Store #, added exact imagesize in bytes

8.03, New interactive HEX/ASCII sector/cluster/imagefile/disk editor, plus a few JFS fixes

• DFSDISK Correctly displays all LVM-sectors in FS modes like NTFS/JFS/HPFS too
• EDIT Added interactive HEX/ASCII sector-editor in the 'edit' command
• EDIT Add the generic FIND dialog using Ctrl-F/Ctrl-A to sector editor
• EDIT Add the GOTO-location dialog using Ctrl-G to the sector editor
• EDIT Apply the Hex/Decimal switch for LSN/PSN info in status line as well
• FIND Added 'find-again' logic to the Edit menu (Ctrl-A shortcut)
• GOTO Dialog enhanced with CHS and MCS-number format and updated HELP
• JFS Fix CHECK results of damaged Inodes (allocation information)
• JFS Fix XTP/DTP sector identification on blocksizes < 4Kb PAGE
• MENU Sector-edit item in 'Edit' and shortcut function key F2
• PART Add warnings if an LVM sector (DLAT, BBR etc) has a BAD CRC value
• TXWIN Added a generic HEX/ASCII sector-editor as 'txwin-control' class
• TXWIN Fixed bug in overlapping window-border repainting (Help on a dialog)

8.02, Smart-sector support for whole disk and cloning, JFS enhancements and better logging control

• ALLOC Area support HPFS, FAT, JFS and NTFS filesystems
• CLONE Smart sector support (skip) on disk/filesystem
• COMPARE Smart sector support (skip) on disk/filesystem
• DFSDISK Allow display of all LVM information in FS modes
• FIXBOOT Fixed a program-crash in FAT fixboot (trap)
• FIXPBR Geo/HiddenSector warnings clear, optional fix
• JFS More error reporting on damaged fileset structure
• LOGGING Support for maximum logfile size and log rotation
• MENU File -> Trace to 3 cyclic files of limited size
• MENU F9 Now supports allocation display (usage, data distribution) for a whole disk
• Mode=xxx Menu wording changed a bit for more clarity
• SHIFTR Shift all data in a range of sectors to the RIGHT
• SLT2LIST Add selected SLT sectors to list for later analysis
• Smart Test (smart) allocation for any specified sector on disk
• \path command implemented for the JFS filesystem, and fixed a bug in this command for HPFS and NTFS

8.01, Better LVM/FORMAT support removables, UI improvements, bug fixes

• CHECK NTFS, fixed trap on $Secure resident/extranl data mix
• CHECK JFS fix the bogus Inode message on '-m' in 8.00
• CR Dialog Added explicit Bootable JFS 0x07 in the type list
• CR Dialog Re-ordered a few fields for better TAB order
• DFSCHECK Renamed scripts to 'dfs*.dfs' for consistency
• Display bootsector sets 'up' sector to last sector number
• EXT2/3 Super command displays some more details from superblock
• FDISK cmd Hint at requiring an FS-specific mode for DELFIND etc
• FORMAT Refresh internal partition-info tables after formatting
• FS FAT Init sets global Dirty status on FAT-FS for querying
• History Ctrl-D in popup deletes current item from the history
• History Avoid (recursive history) popup from another list popup
• History Ctrl-D on cmdline, execute automatic NEXT in history
• IBM BMGR Show Bootmanager version as contained in the bootsector
• JFS Fixed trap in display of a ZEROED superblock sector
• JFS DIR Fix directoy-block display for blocksize not being 4K
• JFS INIT Detect invalid Inode extent sectornumbers in IMAP
• JFSsuper Allow but warn on invalid superblock signature like JFS3
• LVM dlg lvmSync logic off by default for removables (OS2 only)
• Library Fix a possible crash on PATH being larger than 1024 chars
• MBR code recognize 'OS/2 2.xx German' style MBR (AP)
• NTFS DIR show 'noatt/-bad-' strings on MFT structure errors
• New Menu Display -> Other view -> Warnings only; display warnings
• PART Added warning for BMGR CHS issue in bootsector
• PART -x Adds extra FS-specific columns to 'part -s' for eCS OEM
• Restore Dialog, fix list selection display after an IMZ2RAW cmd
• SET cmd Add 'set logfile ON/OFF' to surpress logging temporarily
• W2KBM => BMFIX includes CHS check & fix plus old W2KBM functionality
• WARNING On partition type 0x44 (Norton GoBack) when detected
• WARNING On Linux CHS/alignment warnings probably due to geometry
• WIPEFREE as new name for ZEROFREE for consistency with others

8.00, JFS support, UI enhancements, better progress reporting, bug fixes

• CHECK/SLT Use compact layout showing path and filename too
• JFS SLT Creates a filename cache for recovery and undelete
• JFS DIR Show file and directory EA-size if EA is present
• Mode=HPFS Find/Fix items now in 'FS structural fixes' submenu
• Mode=HPFS add dump of system area to a compressed imagefile
• Mode=JFS add display for specific system/FS Inodes by number
• Mode=JFS add dump of system area to a compressed imagefile
• Mode=JFS add search and display items for filerecovery
• Mode=JFS add creation/update of recovery/undelete filenames
• QFI cmd Quick find inodes on JFS by searching Inode extents
• SHIFTL Shift data in sectors (left) for custom recoveries
• SLT -x New options aborts SLT build (running in background)
• DFSDISK script, runs windowed for better progress reporting
• DFSCHECK script, runs windowed for better progress reporting
• PROGRESS Replaced 'dot' style progress by a progress BAR
• PROGRESS Enhanced status-line progress with calculated ETA
• CHECK Changed progress #items done to percentage complete
• CLEANUP Now resets non-std partitiontable flags in primaries
• -nr +nr Display sector, go backward/forward (GB/GF alias)
• CHECK Basic FS check for JFS, shows alloc errors and damage
• CR dlg Radio button for Recover/Clear mode selection
• EJECT New command for removables (like USB)
• FIXBOOT FAT select different BOOTCODE using a popup list
• FIXBOOT JFS bootcode template update for latest JFS releases
• FIXBOOT Serial-nr value changed to sectornr + timestamp
• FIXPBR Updated help, add message popup
• FORMAT Copy bootsector as spare to last sector (LVM-sig!)
• FORMAT Make FAT minimal 1 cluster in size (avoiding bugs)
• FORMAT Serial-nr value changed to sectornr + timestamp
• FORMAT partition selection now moved to the FORMAT menu
• JFS DIR Display Inode/DirPage for regular directories
• JFS SLT Build complete; used by SLT, ID and CHECK commands
• LVM Fix change letter for JFS types, dynamic update now
• LVM -C Option CLEARs old LVM BBR info (for NEW partitions)
• LVM dlg Strip trailing spaces from names that cause problems
• MEDIA NonLinux: IDE/SCSI/USB or PCCARD terminology change
• MENU Add SLT-build and ID to the Mode=JFS menu
• MENU Add explicit Mode=AUX submenu for consistency
• MENU File and Display->Related This +1 and This -1 added
• MENU Media management eject/discover (updated mount too)
• Menutext Use "disk-list" with mount/unmount, avoid confusion
• PART Display 'r' removable indicator for USB disks etc
• WARNING for FAT16 filesystem found in FAT32 type 0b/0c
• WARNING for FAT32 filesystem found in FAT16 type 06/0e/12
• WARNING made Windows-0x0F extended type a minor warning

7.15, FAT/FAT32 FORMAT, NTFS enhancements, many new dialogs, several bug fixes

7.14, Some new and quite a few enhanced dialogs, several bug fixes

7.13, Some minor fixes and cleanup, built using first OPEN SOURCE TxWindows 1.0 library

7.12, Much more reliable NTFS resizing, DIRTY command / menu for NTFS and some other minor improvements

7.11, Suppress dummy (USB) disks in OS/2, NTFS dirty status and logfile display, SETBOOT updates

7.10, Resize improvements, NTFS MFT updates, more warnings and a few bugs fixed

7.09, Automatic logging, speed improvement for imaging and some nasty bugs fixed

7.08, Mouse and dialog enhancements, fixed trap on some DVD/CD media at startup

7.07, Automatic bad-sector optimization in CLONE/IMAGE and mouse support in OS2 and DOS

7.06, NTLDR fix commands, LVM-refresh, some minor bug fixes and improved mouse support in Windows version

7.05, Better CDROM support in DOS version, standard MSI installer and mouse support in Windows version

7.04, Support insertion of USB drivers in DFSee ISO image, fixed commandline HISTORY and MFT display bug

7.03, New GENPART command, more flexible DFSDISK, improved commandline history and several fixes

7.02, Partition limit 1000, updated HOWTO document and WARPIN based installer for the OS2 version

7.01, More imaging commands and menu items, search whole disk for superblocks and more ...

7.00, A new MAJOR release with many improvements in the user interface, improved imaging and much more!

6.17, Fixed CR BUG (copy primary) and added several new MENU items like BACKUP/RESTORE partition info

6.16, Enhanced handling of numeric parameters and commands, several enhancements and fixes

6.15, Several new menu-items and some improved displays based on Warpstock feedback

6.13, Linux executable added to distribution, no shell-scripts yet

6.12, Linux executable release candidate 1, fully functional (afaik :-)

6.11, More Linux preparation (DEVMAP) and fixes for RECOVERY and PTEdit

6.10, New partition MOVE and copy, improvements in LVM-recovery, several fixes

6.09, Improved output for the LIST command for FAT-EA info

6.08, Improved output for the LIST command and some minor fixes

6.07, BOOTINI and several other minor fixes, updated bootable images

6.06, UI color schemes, fix BOOT.INI, foreign keyboards, improved FAT support and more

6.05, Minor update, fixes the DFSTART script and RETRY default

6.04, New functionality and menu-items, better Linux filesystem recognition

6.02, Change partition-type from menu, other minor changes and fixes

6.00, Version 6.00, menu system, smart imaging and much more!

5.56, Final 5.xx release, expiry postponed until the year 2012

5.00, MAJOR release, introducing the 32-bit DOS-extended version

4.28, Last 4.xx version, unsupported but upgrade to 7.xx is possible

4.00, first SHAREWARE version

3.42, Last freeware version (not supported anymore)

For more details on older DFSee versions, bugs solved and changes made, see the text-document: DFSee development history and changes

Further development depends on my own needs, feedback I receive from other users and the amount of registrations sold to fund these new developments.

Suggestions and comments on DFSee and related stuff is welcome.      (Internet)

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Created by Jan van Wijk:   May 2005, last update:   1-Jan-2010