kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) (06/27/89)
Hi all.....
Well, it finally happened. After several years of skirting death I finally
got stuck. Over the weekend, my home system was struck w/ a total hosing.
First, I was doing a simple unerase via norton's QU but I was also using
the switchar included with PICNIX's un*x-like programs. The two didn't
mix. After getting some EXE failures I rebooted. About 1/2 way through
autoexec.bat, the machine hung hard. Had to power off. BTW, I was cleaning
up before doing a backup.
After doing a low level format on up, I was restoring (more background: I
have a 60 meg disk partitioned into 2 parts via fdisk) D: when the media I
had used as backup began to get worse and worse. Not only had I juggled
the order of the backup diskettes, some of them proved to be unreadable.
Now, I know what your thinking... "It's a good thing this was D and not C
cause at least you should have MOST of your stuff in working order." well,
not really: I use D: the most.
All the "important" stuff was on D:
I bet your thinking "Oh, poor guy! How can I help out this beleagured soul?"
well, you could send me the uudecode source posted to c.b.i.p a little bit
ago. I lost the source so I can't decode anything. The rbhelp would be
nice too. So would nyet.
Well, the sob story is over. If you have the C (pr pascal) source to UUDECODE
could you send it?
Thanks for the help (why is it that disaster strikes at the worst
opportunity?)
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Kevin Franden UUCP: {backbone}!pyramid!infmx!kevinf
Informix Software Inc
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