THE BEST DISK ANALYSER : find the type,
used/free/total space and many many more
information on all your drives (IDE, SCSI,
ESDI, CDROM, Networks, Compressed, ...) !
Includes files/dirs finder and deleter.

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I / Purpose of DKI
==================

DKI (for DisK Information) was initially designed to give a clear
view of your drives free disk space. A good place for it is within
AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

It was then completed by a more sophisticated analyse of the disk units,
detailling the type (hard disk, network , ...) with technical information
if available (details about partitions, cd-rom tracks, ...) and
physical information (for IDE, SCSI, CDROM disks).

Finally, it was extended to recursive file and directory management :
you can count, find and delete files and directories.

To get a summary of it's possibilities, type DKI /?.

This software is distributed as shareware. This means that you can use
it and test it for 30 days, but you have to register if you are using
it regularly. The registration fee is only US$ 10, so it's cheap for you
but it will encourage me for the next DKI ... (see chapter VII).



II / Technical details
======================

1) Identified programs
----------------------

- Operating systems : DOS, DR-DOS, Windows, DesqView.
- Disk compression : Stacker, Superstor, Double Disque, DoubleSpace.
- Networks : Novell Netware Lite, 2.2, 3.11, PairWare, PC LAN,
LanSmart, Lan Manager, Lantastic, Workgroups, PC-TCP.
- Disk-cache software : SmartDrive 4+, Pc-cache 8+,
Norton Cache 5, 6 et 7 (Ncache2).


2) Identified disk units
------------------------

Floppy, Hard disk, ram-disk, compressed disk, SCSI syquest, CDROM,
network, remote units (DRIVEMAP, INTERLINK), substitued units.


3) Collected physical data
--------------------------

IDE disk's name, partitions, SCSI units (via ASPI), CDROM tracks.




III / Use examples
===================

1) Global units state
---------------------

=> DKI

All units state.

=> DKI C: D:

State of specified units.



2) Technical information
------------------------

=> DKI /p

Note : if you have more than 25 lines of information, try :

=> DKI /pm

Note : DKI can give you details even about non formated IDE disks, or IDE
disks with a format different than DOS. It can handle 2 controllers.



3) Full information
-------------------

=> DKI /v (or /vm)

Note : in this mode, DKI counts all your files and directories, and
this operation may take a long time. Just press 'Esc to abort it.



4) Information about disks, directories
---------------------------------------

=> DKI c:\.
DKI \windows


Note 1 : you can mix commands :

DKI c: d:
DKI c:\dos c:\windows d:

Note 2 : if you just want to study your PATH directories :

DKI /e



5) Summary by directories
-------------------------

=> DKI \windows /0

Lists all the sub-directories from \windows, detailing the number of
files inside, and the size occupied by the directory on the disk.

=> DKI C:\ /1

Lists all the first-level directories of drive C:

=> DKI d:\*.gif /1 (ou 2 ou 3)

Lists all the directories of level 1, 2 or 3, containing .GIF files.

Note : you can work on all your drives with a single command :

=> DKI $:*.exe /1

Lists the directories containing programs for all your drives.



6) Files information
--------------------

=> DKI c:\dos\*.exe

Lists all the programs inside C:\DOS, specifying their date and size.

=> DKI c:\windows\*.dll /0

Lists all Windows's DLL, and displays their total size by directory.



7) Deleting a directory or a set of files
-----------------------------------------

=> DKI c:\windows /d

Deletes completely a 'thing' called Windows !

=> DKI $:*.swp /d

Deletes all the files with extension SWP of all your drives.

Note : if DKI encounters a read-only file, it ask you for confirmation
before deleting it..

Note 2 : you can create a DOSKEY macro : DOSKEY XDEL = DKI $* /D.




IV / List of all DKI's commands
================================

/0 : lists all the directories scanned during a file search.
/1,2: same as above, but for directories before level 1 or 2

/a : displays with ASCII 7 bits filter and no color, to allow
for example the storing into a BBS message.

/d : Delete mode, to delete recusively directories and files specified
Be careful with this command, because the deletion is quite fast,
so you have no time to have regrets after it is started !

/g : dbuGing information (for me).

/e : scans the directories of the DOS PATH variable.

/i : makes DKI's installation easier, by looking for an appropriate
location where to copy DKI, and by updating your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
to add DKI and an XDEL macro.

/m : switches to Maxline mode (50 lines).

/p : Physical information.

/v : Verbose mode.

/* : Full-information mode.


Note : if you want to print DKI results, you have to redirect the
standard output on a file, and then print this file
Example : DKI /p > DKI.TXT then COPY DKI.TXT PRN




V / Display description
========================

DKI 1.83 by Philippe Duby (c)93
Running under DOS 5, Stacker 3, Netware 3.11, SmartDrive 4.1

Release of elements
identified by DKI


Drive information

Used Free Total
C: Hard disk 1 ------ 19 + 8 = 28 Mb C:\
D: Stacker 1.5 - 351 + 23 = 375 Mb D:\PDEV
E: Hard disk 1 286 + 12 = 299 Mb E:\TMP
F: Syquest --------- 41 + 44 = 85 Mb F:\
G: Subst D: - 20 / 375 Mb D:\SBPRO
L: Netware 1 --- 209 + 46 = 255 Mb* DEV\VOL1:\
: Total-Host -- 623 + 90 = 713 Mb Phys= 327, Net=255

Unit Current
type directory
bar display of
Unit n disk space total size

occcupied space free space

Notes :
1) In case of Stacker drive, the compression rate is displayed (1.5), and
the total disk size is the real size (and not the theorical which is
usually the normal size multiplied by 2).

2) For substitued drives, the size occupied by the real drive is displayed
in grey color.

3) At the end of the total line, Phys indicates the real physical size,
and Net the real size accessible by network.

4) Total-host means the total size minus the size occupied by all the host
files containing a compressed disk.



File & directory information

Files Dir Used % Free % Total
C:\*.* 656 10 20,652,032 70 8,730,624 29 29,384,704
D:\*.* 7,932 283 369,008,640 93 24,436,736 6 393,445,376
E:\*.* 380 15 300,474,368 95 13,262,848 4 313,876,480
E:\*.* 184 20 42,843,521 48 45,953,412 52 88,313,841
G:\*.* 259 13 21,372,928 5 24,436,736 6 393,445,376
L:\*.* 1,927 100 219,783,431 82 48,648,192 18 268,431,360
:\ 11,154 421 910,059,520 69 95,078,400 31 1,005,137,920

Analysed Nb of
files Files Space used by Free space Total size
Directories the files

Physical information

Cyl.Hd.ST Total Description
Floppy 1 : 80. 2.18 1.44 Mb
Floppy 2 : 80. 2.15 1.20 Mb
Hard disk 1 : 700.16.60 328 Mb
Part 1.1 : 60. . 28 Mb DOS 16 bits (Active) ( 9%)
Part 2.1 : 639. . 299 Mb DOS Extended ( 91%)
IDE disk : 700.16.60 328 Mb T 6D8C X 0
SCSI Host 1 : T7 ADAPTEC AHA-1520 (ASW-1210 Ver 3.1)
Disk : 85.64.32 85 Mb T3L0 SyQuest SQ5110 (SCSI-1)
Net volume : 344 Mb DEV\VOL1 (100%)
CD-ROM : 77'34'' 682 Mb ARTSHOW91B (status = 07B6)
Track 1 : 68'42'' 604 Mb Data
Track 2 : 2'05'' 18 Mb 2 Audio channels

Physical name
Nb of cylinders Description
or minutes
Nb of heads Total size
or secondes
Nb of sectors by tracks


Total mem : 8 Mb
Total disk : 412 Mb
Total net : 344 Mb
Total cdrom : 682 Mb

Cache stats : 2048 Kb for Dos, 2048 Kb for Windows, Success ratio = 73%

Data found in the cache /Total of cache access


Notes :
1) For Novell Netware, the total size may be greater than the size
reported by DOS (because Novell can handle big clusters).
2) The partition are described by 2 numbers : the partition table number,
and the entry number in this table.




VI / Historic
=============

1.00 (11/92)
------------
- 1st version, which displays free disk space of all drives.
- Name : DFREE (Disk FREE space).

1.01 (01/93)
------------
- Correction of various bugs.

1.02 (02/93)
------------
- Various improvements.

1.03 (02/93)
------------
- Can collect information about files and directories.
- New name, adapted to the new functionalities : DDSIZE.

1.04 (03/93)
------------
- Verbose mode added.

1.05 (03/93)
------------
- Can delete files and directories.

1.06 (04/93)
------------
- Improvements ...
- New name, simplier : DKI
- Cration of a documentation.

1.07 (04/93)
------------
- 7 bits display mode.
- Cration of the pseudo-unit $, corresponding to 'all units'.
- IDE disk identification.
- Partitions informations.
- Rounding routines to display Kb and Mb.
- SCSI access via ASPI interface.

1.08 (07/93)
------------
- Analyse of CDROM disks.
- Details about cache software.

1.81 (08/93)
------------
- Version 1.80 = 1.08
- Correction of some bugs ...

1.82 (09/93)
------------
- If the command line contains files reference (*.C, WIN*.*, ...),
DKI displays informations on them (directory, date, size),
to allow file search.
- Display the number of directories scanned during a search.
- handle international attributes (sparator for thousand,
order of date, help text (/?) in english).
- New documentation.
- Installation module.
- Better management for SCSI disks via ASPI .
- Improvement of deletion routines.
- New routines for IDE detection (functions as IDEID).

1.9 (11/93)
------------
- Identify IDE/ESDI units installed on a secondary controller.
- English documentation for shareware version.


Projects (??/93)
---------------
- Version 2.0 for Dos and Windows.



Thanks
------

- Analyse, ideas, advices, help : Jean-Daniel Pauget.

- Technical advices :
* Ralph Brown (Interrupt List)
* Henry-Pascal Eldin (LanSmart)
* Doug Merrett (IDE disks)
* Bruno Sirletti, Michel Cerdini (SCSI disks)

- Betatesters : Lionel Drevon, Bruno Lassausaie, Georges
Bourne (sysop of GEORGE'S HOME), Franois Heizmann (LL),
Pascal Valette (sysop of LE LIEN), Henry-Pascal Eldin (LL),
Cyril MORISSE (sysop of LOKI), Patrick Kuchard, Harold Ovsec (GH),
Alain Gazet, Ivan Clement (GH), Vincent Mallet (Sysop of ZYLLIUS),
Philippe Debray (ZY), Jean-Louis Matrat (ZY), Dominique
Klein (ZY), Pascal Richard (GH), Serge Chenavard (GH),
Luc Blateau (GH), ...





VII / Contacts
==============

If you want to register, send me a note of 10$ (or the equivalent in your
country money) to the following address. Registering will bring you access
to the latest version, and possibly explanations about how works DKI if
you are interested in.

If you want to help me to improve this program, you can send me the results
of your tests (by creating a report file with DKI /G >DKI.TXT),
your remarks and suggestion, and any information (documentation, listings,
...) that you could have about peripherals detection and so on ...


Thanks a lot in advance !

Address :
---------

Philippe Duby
7 rue Jules Valls
69100 VILLEURBANNE
France


COMPUSERVE : 73551,1561

INTERNET : [email protected]

FIDONET address : 2:323/4 (George's Home)


You can also reach me on the following BBS :

- GEORGE'S HOME : (33) 78.21.96.65
(busy between 2h30 - 6h30 local time)
DKI is available under the magic name DKI.

- LE LIEN : (33) 72.08.98.79
- ZYLLIUS : (33) 93.32.07.20