TRAX 1.0  -  A disk utility program for DOS 3.3 disks.
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WHAT IS IT?
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TRAX is a collection of BASIC/machine language programs that manipulate
DOS 3.3 disks.  TRAX comes as a ShrinkIt archive of a DOS 3.3 disk.

TRAX contains the following:

*  Sector Editor -  performs all manner of changes to individual sectors.
   -------------    Includes online help and DOS 3.3 reference.  Up to five
                    buffers (press return to see the buffer usage).

*  VTOC Editor   -  The VTOC (Volume Table Of Contents) contains the sectors
   -----------      used/unused map.  The editor, among other things, can
                    trace a file showing exactly which sectors are used by
                    it.

*  DOS Utilities -  A collection of utilities including: raw data dumps,
   -------------    zapping of DOS commands (makes them CATALOG), changing
                    the name and type of the boot program, bad sector scan,
                    AND MORE!

*  I.D. Marker   -  Reads/Writes a short label to an unused area of the
   -----------      VTOC.



NOTES
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Okay!  So you don't use DOS 3.3 everyday, but, you might want to play around
with it from time to time, just to remember the good old days!  I wrote this
in 1983 when I was 17 and knew nothing about good programming (then again,
it's BASIC) but it seems to work quite well.  I've used it many times since.
I never got around to writing a manual, though... but it is basically menu
driven.



THINGS TO DO, MISSING
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TRAX will attempt to rebuild the VTOC and perhaps catalog track (I forget) of
a damaged disk, but it really is not a Norton Utilities, i.e. you can use it
to do the work but it won't do it for you.  Will I ever change this?  I doubt
it, but then again, if you look, I added the I.D. Marker in 1990, though I
really don't remember writing it.



OTHER STUFF
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TRAX is freeware (obviously!) but I do retain all rights to it.  Modify it at
will but I want to see modified versions BEFORE you post them anywhere!


If you _ever_ use this, please let me know!  I'm curious to see how many
people still use their old II+'s.


- Ron Kneusel   March 9, 1994

Internet:  kneusel@msupa.pa.msu.edu