hans@Shasta.ARPA (01/24/86)
Somebody asked me to repair an unreadable MS-file file.
To do this I need the MS-file file format.
Is this public or did somebody figure it out?
If yes could somebody send me the description?
This MS-file read problem makes me wonder though.
The file is 300k big.
The disks whirrs a long time before the error alert-box appears (with only a
OK button ofcourse). This, probably, means that MS-file reads nearly the
whole file until it (or the OS) hits an error.
In stead of asking to continue with a damaged file it aborts the read.
There you're stuck; a 300k file with probably 299.999k of valid data,
because of a flipped bit in the last byte, but worthless because you
can't read it.
Is this the kind of error recovery generally used in Mac programs?
Hans Mulder
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