DOS ain't dead

Hello,

I'd like to know a free tool to "clean" directories on FAT32. With "clean" I mean to remove the deleted (0xE5) FAT entries and thus "compress" the valid entries.

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MS-DOS forever!

> I'd like to know a free tool to "clean" directories on FAT32. With "clean"
> I mean to remove the deleted (0xE5) FAT entries and thus "compress" the
> valid entries.

Maybe is a by-product of dirsorters? If you can also let Windows access the partition, you could try some windows dirsorter

> Maybe is a by-product of dirsorters?

Thanks, but now the next question is: who knows a free "dirsorter"?

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MS-DOS forever!

> > Maybe is a by-product of dirsorters?
>
> Thanks, but now the next question is: who knows a free "dirsorter"?

Hey, all!

Well not "free" (it's inexpensive shareware), but D. J. Murdoch's LFN Sort will do the trick:

http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/programs/lfnsort.htm

Last updated 2004. Shareware fee, $10. Runs directly from pure DOS; works on FAT 12, 16, 32.

The interface isn't much -- command line only -- but it's always worked great for me. I use it mostly from a batch file, redirecting output to a temp file, then editing the file to use as input back to the program. Of course, you can also just use it directly from the command line.

Cheers....