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From: jvwDESPAM{at}DESPAMdfsee.com

DFSee version 14.7 has been released.  

MINOR release, meaning you get it for FREE if you have a 14.x key already.
However, thare are some nice new features and some bug fixes in there!  

 - Identification of, and protection of UNKnown, enCRyPted and LargeFloPpy disks  

 - The OS/2 version now can be updated from the web using the Help menu (Get ...)
 (requires a functioning WGET utility to be present)  

 - Linux and macOS screen handling has been enhanced to allow screens up to 768
 characters wide, and the colors have been tuned further for readability  

 - Keyboard in Linux and macOS has been enhanced with Ctrl-Arrows and Shift-Fkeys  

 - HEX editor update for large screens and using 4K object size by default  

 - the Linux bootable USB stick DFSee-PUPPY has been updated to 14.7 too  

 See the screenshots and additional info at:  

 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/cdrom#usb

 Note: existing users of the PUPPY stick can update directly using the menu:  

 Help->
 Program Updates / Downloads ->
 Get latest STABLE update  

 (Will work with the regular Linux and macOS versions too, if WGET is there)  

 

DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning,
smart imaging or cloning of partitions or complete disks,
filesystem and disk analysis, directory/file browsing with
edit/view/copy capabilities including limited UNDELETE.  


More details at:
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/  

Direct download links from the DFSee website:  

 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x.zip
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x.msi
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x_warpin.exe
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x_dsk.zip
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x_linux.tgz
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x_iso.zip
 http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee14x_stick_iso.zip


Or from the HOBBES website:
 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee147.zip
 or (after processing):
 http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=dfsee&pushbutton=Search


Functional changes since 14.6  

 - ABOUT: Show DFSee/TxLib build-date to YYYY-MM-DD for consistency
 - ABOUT: Accept s-F4 as shortcut key, works from all Unix terminals
 - Clearly identify/present (free)space for non partitionable disks
 - DISK: Recognize another MBR variant 'IBM Thinkpad factory preload'
 - HEXED: Avoid changing item-size (sectors) on using GOTO (Ctrl-G)
 - HEXED: Default item size 4KiB (block); Overrule with 'edit -s:n'
 - HEXED: Mouse click on ASCII [ or past ] columns to scroll UP/DN
 - HEXED: Slightly different color for buffer before/after current
 - HEXED: Speed up initial loading by optimizing first window paint
 - HEXED: Tune window width for up to 128 HEX columns; relSN value
 - HFS: Correctly identify HFS SB in 4096 byte sector size disks
 - Kbd: treat shift-up/dn/left/right/pgup/pgdn just as Ctrl or Alt
 - Kbd: shift-F5/F7/F8/F10/F12 alias for Alt-Fx on UNIX (windowing)
 - Kbd: Linux: new rxvt codes ctrl-arrows/PgUp/PgDn Ctrl/Shift-Fkey
 - LOG: Fixed rotating '-m:size' limitted log on mac/Linux platform
 - LUKS: Recognize 'Linux Unified Key Setup' in sectordata, display
 - LVM: Work on MBR-style disks only (not on GPT, FLP or CRP style)
 - Linux: Probing for NVMe SSD, HVM virtuals and MMC (SD) devices
 - MAP/ALLOC: Support and use screen widths up to 768 columns wide
 - MAP/PART: Enhanced 'partitioning style' to: MBR, GPT, FLP or CRP
 - MAP: Detect LUKS encrypted disks/partitions, show relevant info
 - MAP: Optimize color usage for max diversity on various platforms
 - MENU: Extra spacing between menuheaders if wider than 100 columns
 - MOUSE: No scroll but OPEN on click right-side of drop-down-menu
 - NEWMBR on large-flop or LUKS-crypted fails in batch or OEM-engine
 - NEWMBR on large-flop or LUKS-crypted, extra warning in confirm
 - NEWMBR without parameters does CURRENT disk ('.'), not ALL ('*')
 - OS/2: External commands without need for extra  to start
 - OS/2: Filter WGET progress output to re-use the same line in SB
 - OS/2: Filter WGET progress output, no repeated lines in the log
 - OS/2: Fixed version number in DFSHIST.TXT and WPI distribution
 - OUTPUT: Accept shift-arrow keys etc to scroll the output window
 - OUTPUT: No command timestamp when echo is supressed for a command
 - PART: Default block/clustersize 4096 bytes (when no bootsec value)
 - PART: Encrypted GPT partition info, with FileVault header data
 - PART: Fixed crash with '-b' or '-n' on large-floppy-format disk
 - PART: Include Encrypted partition info, with (LUKS) header data
 - PART: Include Encrypted disk info (LUKS) and wider 'info' column
 - QUERY: New 'query DSTyle' partitioning style MBR, GPT, FLP, CRP
 - SCRIPT: New variables $_d_pstyle (string) and $_d_cryptdisk
 - SCRIPT: Updated DFSGETUP/DFSGETPY scripts to report missing 'wget'
 - UIKEYS: Show key-description as well as decimal TXLIB key-value
 - UNIX: Fixed bug on terminals over 32K cells; MAX width now 768
 - UNIX: More iTem/Terminal key codes (like Ctrl-up/dn, shift-F11)
 - UNIX: Set desktop to 80x25 if reported screensize 0x0 (in debugger)
 - UNIX: Support small screen in large terminal window (-screen:WXxY)
 - VCU/PCLEAR/FIXCHS/NEWMBR: No writing 'untouchable' disks (FLP/CRP)
 - VER: New command to display single line of version/packaging info
 - XML: New tag diskstyle="str" = "MBR, GPT",
"FLP", "CRP" or "UNK"  

Regards, JvW  


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