** PD/Shareware review / 244 words **

DiskCake v2.1

78%

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Utility
Freeware, all Ataris
Author: Christoph Zwerschke
http://www.cix.co.uk/~inactive/
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DiskCake displays the file structure for any floppy or hard disk partition graphically as a pie chart. It's really useful for visualising where all your hard disk space went - it's much easy to spot space wasters looking at the pie chart compared with directory listings.

The pie chart is generated from the directory supplied by the file selector and displayed in a resizeable GEM window. Selecting a folder pie slice causes it to graphically 'open' then display the subdirectory and clicking on the closer gadget in the path line steps back up the directory tree.

Left clicking on any file pie segment displays a dialog showing the filename, time and date stamp, size and archive bit along with an option to delete the file. A right mouse click anywhere inside the window displays a pop-up menu with options to display the file selector (to select a new path), determine the sort order, set the typeface and load/save options.

DiskCake can be run as a desktop accessory or program from the desktop and accepts command lines (via the AV protocol). DiskCake is bilingual, automatically selecting between English or German versions by reading the _AKP and _IDT Cookies.

DiskCake has certainly saved more space than it occupies on my hard drive so it's one of my resident utilities.

Matthew Bacon