(Re-)Introducing DiskTool

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What the hell is DiskTool? DiskTool was originally called DosTool way back in 1986, and it was for MSDOS systems. In 1996 I re-wrote it and changed the name to DiskTool, and focused mainly on the Linux console. Not long after that I stopped supporting the DOS version completely and DT became Linux DiskTool. In 2013 my building was hit by an F4 or F5 tornado (depending upon the analysis), which destroyed the RAID 5 server that lived in the basement along with the building and all of my backups. I had to withdraw DT from FreshMeat.net and sort of forgot about it over the years, while we rebuilt the company. I recently adopted Linux as my primary OS again, so I have rewritten DT from scratch.

I do a substantial amount of work in a Linux terminal or console, and I like small, fast utilities that help me move around or do specific tasks without getting in my way. That was the whole reason for writing DiskTool in the first place way back in the DOS days. These days DT is much more flexible and useful than it was back then, and it offers some sort of odd features that are surprisingly useful. Things like search and replace within one or many files, list processes and kill a user process, find file(s), and many more.

I have also taken a different look at marking files and what you can do with them. For instance, you can mark a bunch of files in a directory, and then change to another directory and mark a bunch more files. You can keep doing this until you reach the marked files limit of 2000 if you want to. Then you can go to yet another directory and either copy or move ALL of the files you marked in ALL of those directories into one place. Of course DT does standard file functions like copy, move, and delete files or directories, but it also can zip and unzip files, edit files, rename files and directories, manage file permissions and file ownership (chmod and chown), create SymLinks, and even create a new directory... Pretty cool huh? All of this is done with simple keystrokes and your cursor control keys.

DT comes with an editor named ale (another linux editor), but you can configure DT to use whatever text editor that you like. You can also change the various colors of the DT display windows. There is always a help panel displayed to help you remember the key commands used in DT. There are actually 2 pages of that help that you can see using the right and left arrows.

D T is free software. Actually DT is beggar-ware meaning if you use and like it, please consider making a donation via paypal. No donation is required. A donation does not change anything about the software, but it does encourage me to continue updating DT and creating new applications in the future. DT is written entirely in Object Pascal. Source code is available by Email request. Any questions, criticisms, or suggestions are always welcome. Send those to Jem Miller