Hello Ben,

    Responding to a post in the BATPOWER area:
    On Saturday June 12 2004 at 16:48,
    Ben Ritchey [1:393/68] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: Re: Norton batch

 BR>>> I'm trying to add an automated/Batch weekly task that will run
 BR>>> Norton Disk Doctor against all DOS drives (under MS-DOS 6.22).
 BR>>> Ndd.exe c: d: f: h: j: k: l: /Q /RA:c:\ndd.rpt
 GM: >> I'm not sure that Norton Disk Doctor was ever intended to be
 GM: >> run in _AUTO_ (unattended) mode...  What do you do if NDD
 GM: >> encounters a

 BR> Auto Repair is defined to handle this automatically in Options Config:

 BR> Screen 1:
 BR> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 BR>                          Automatic Repair Options

[ ...snip... ]

 BR>                          Enable automatic repair?

 BR>                              OK        Cancel
 BR> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 BR> I select OK, of course 

This is _most_ intriguing!!!

I have the Norton Utilities, version 8.0 (circa 1994) also and I do not
have those configuration options....

 GM: >> I don't run NDD as an automated event, but I do run Speed Disk
 GM: >> which makes a call to NDD if a problem is encountered.  My
 GM: >> command processor (of choice) is 4DOS and if you have the
 GM: >> equivalent NDOS processor, then I may be able to assist you.
 GM: >> Let me know if you are running NDOS (or are willing to run
 GM: >> NDOS) and I'll fling a copy of my Speed Disk batch at you.

 BR> Worth a try. I have a full complement of Norton Utilities v8 (circa
 BR> 1994) plus the latest versions of DiskEdit and NDD from NSW 2003
 BR> (which is what I'm running). The latest Norton Utilities I have access
 BR> to (from NSW 2003) are all Windows versions :( except for DiskEdit,
 BR> NDD, Unerase & Unformat (since they are used on the Rescue diskette I
 BR> presume).

NSW 2003 or NSW Pro 2003?  (I believe the Pro version has the Norton Ghost
program and a few other enhanced features.)

Are you implying that I can copy DiskEdit, NDD, Unerase & Unformat (from my
Win98SE system) onto a diskette and put them on my DOS system _OR_ do I
have to create a Rescue diskette from my Win98SE system and then copy the
files to the DOS system?

It would be much nicer if I could fire up Windows for Workgroup 3.11 and
try installing NSW (I don't believe that NSW will install on a 16-bit OS --
I'll have to give it a try out later today)....

As a side note, I was finally able to get WfW 3.11 connected to the network
system.  I had to obtain a different NIC (Netgear) with drivers that
support WfW (my AOpen NIC was unable to do the job correctly).  I found a
version 3.01 of Internet Explorer and I can now surf the Web (sort of).  I
just have to do some "tweaking" to the network setup and then look for help
to find out how I can transfer files from one machine to another across my
network instead of doing the "floppy disk shuffle"....  ;-)))

=== Cut Begin: AUTO_SPD.BTM ===
{at}echo off
:!
:!     L E G A L   S T U F F
:!
:! This program is in the public domain
:!
:! As a user, you are responsible for determining the usefulness for any
:! particular purpose of this software.
:!
:! THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES THAT THIS BATCH FILE WORKS!
:!
:! This batch file was developed for JPSoft's 4DOS version 6.02B Revision B
:! (131) and "_may_" operate with a version of Norton's NDOS
:!
:! This is free software as such you are entitled to a full refund of the
:! purchase price if you are not completely satisfied :)
:!
:! if you modify it and it breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
:!
:! Any addresses listed in this file are only to be used for contacting the
:! authors the purpose of discussing this program.
:!
:!  Enjoy!
:!
:!  Gerald Miller
:!  Fidonet Netmail: 1:342/512
:!  Email: addison(dot)kimmel(at)shaw(dot)ca
::
cls %+ setlocal %+ break on %+ on break goto fini
::
::    Monday, September 22, 2003
::  The following command is commented out, otherwise if there is a problem
::  with this batch file, it does not run it Auto mode.  It may be
::  advisable to change the line to: "on error quit"
::on error (qedit /n%_batchline %{at}search[%0] %+ quit)
::
for %%G in (c:\preback.dat c:\scandisk.log) do if exist %G del/q %G
goto Start

:error
::  I have not encountered an error (that I can recall), but, I am
::  presuming that the following _should_ deal with any problems... ???
::  Modify as required for your purposes.
  chkdsk %drive%: /f
  ndd %drive%: /c /skiphigh
  c:\dos\scandisk %{at}upper[%drive%]: /autofix /surface /nosummary
return

:Start
  iff "%1"=="" then %+ set drive=%{at}upper[c] %+ goto loop
  endiff

:loop
%drive%:
cd\
cls
echo.
echo.
echo                    %drive%:
echo.
CHKDSK %drive%:
if errorlevel 255 gosub error
::
::  When I initially ran SD, it created a SD.INI file in the root of every
::  drive.  I renamed each one for the particular drive (for example,
::  SD_C.INI, SD_D.INI, etc.) and moved all of them to my Norton Utilities
::  directory.
::
(set sd.ini=c:\nu\sd_%drive%.ini
  if exist %drive%:*.swp del/q %drive%:*.swp
  sd %drive%: /ff /se /v /skiphigh
unset/q sd.ini)

  iff "%drive"=="c" then %+
    set drive=%{at}upper[d] %+ goto loop
  elseiff "%drive"=="d" then %+
    set drive=%{at}upper[e] %+ goto loop
  elseiff "%drive"=="e" then %+
    set drive=%{at}upper[f] %+ goto loop
  elseiff "%drive"=="f" then %+
    unset drive %+ goto fini
  endiff

:fini
c:
endlocal %+ touch/q %_batchname
quit
=== Cut End:   AUTO_SPD.BTM ===

           Cheers ... Gerald

... De gustibus non est disputandum. (That is a matter of taste.)
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