david@uhmanoa.UUCP (David Lassner) (10/08/86)
I'm having trouble salvaging a MacWrite document from a file which MacWrite won't open. It's a 42K document which the user says closed ok on Friday, but wouldn't open Saturday. MacWrite starts up, opens the file, but the watch stays on the screen and we can't see more than the title. Naturally, the file represents a month's work and he doesn't have a backup. Word also won't open it, MacTools verifies the disk ok, and bit-copies exhibit the same behavior. The only funny thing I could see in the directory was that the Finder Flags are 0101 rather than the usual 0100. How is the last bit (and for that matter, byte) used? Any ideas on what might be the problem, or more importantly, how to salvage the contents? Thanks!
david@uhmanoa.UUCP (David Lassner) (10/08/86)
>I'm having trouble salvaging a MacWrite document from a file which >MacWrite won't open. It's a 42K document which the user says closed Sorry, missed my address on that. It's: David Lassner ...sdcsvax!noscvax!humu!uhmanoa!david humu!uhmanoa!david@noscvax.ARPA PLATO - david lassner/remotep/pca University of Hawaii Computing Center
dlc@lanl.ARPA (Dale Carstensen) (10/10/86)
> The only funny thing I could see in the > directory was that the Finder Flags are 0101 rather than the usual 0100. The 01 bit (bit 0) means the icon appears on the desktop in an HFS environment. The irony is that bit 8 is not documented! Bit 13 is bundle, 14 is invisible, but both of those are in the upper byte, too.