On May 14,  4:18pm, Ted Lemon wrote:

> Unfortunately, fsdb is virtually impossible to use because its
> interface is essentially adb-like, and all the commands are
> single-character and non-mnemonic.   If it were something one used
> every day, that would be okay, but it's more like once every two years
> for me, so I always have to track down a man page, which can be hard
> when my root partition is hosed.
> 
> If you're going to write an fsdb replacement, I think it would be a
> win to put in a more gdb- or even dbx-like interface.  It might be
> worth looking at the man page for advice on what features to put in,
> but that'd be about it, IMHO.

Way back when, when I was playing with Minix on the PC532, there was
a neat little program with a curses-type interface that let you look
at files by inode or name, and decoded super-block structures and the
like.  Buggered if I can remember it's name, but it was useful under 
Minix more than once...

> 			       _MelloN_

Simon.