[TUHS] Unix v7 icheck dup problem

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Thu Mar 2 18:01:56 AEST 2023


On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:05:45PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> 
> > > I could've sworn that I wrote a paper for AUUGN on that very thing, 
> > > but I'm damned if I can find it...  Anyone here remember it?  It 
> > > explained exactly how to use icheck/dcheck/ncheck/clri on a creamed 
> > > file system (and no, I no longer have the document).
> > 
> > "A Proposal for a Simple Bad Block Utility"
> > page 8 of
> > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/AUUGN-V03.5.pdf
> 
> Boy, that takes me back!  And I can't believe that I used American 
> spelling such as "utilizing" etc...
> 
> Anyway, that's not the one.  It occurred to me that I wrote it before 
> AUUGN was published, as all that we had until then were just informal 
> notes.
> 
> Oh well, more CSU history lost (along with our version of V6 which was 
> almost but not quite V7) :-{

part of it is in

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
usr/source/csu/

"Software from Computing Services Unit"


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